The Sege District Court, presided over by Her Worship Victoria Akua Ghansah, has sentenced five individuals, including Nene Hakpo Adibuertey Puplampu IV, to three months imprisonment without the option of a fine, following their conviction for abetment, conspiracy, and assault in a chieftaincy-related dispute in the Hwakpo community of Ada East.
The case, which began in July 2022, involved a violent altercation between members of two royal families in Hwakpo, the Puplampu and Ackwerh factions.
The dispute escalated when the complainants, acting under instructions from their chief, Nene Agbashie Dzikunu Ackwerh III, beat a gongon to announce a communal labor exercise.
Court documents revealed that Nene Hakpo Adibuertey Puplampu IV instructed his associates to seize the gongon from the complainants.
