The Adjabeng Court �2� on Thursday fined a cattle owner, Alhaji Issifu, GH�600.00 or in default one year imprisonment in hard labour for non-compliance of an order to relocate his animals from the Accra Metropolis.
The court presided over by Mrs Faustina Mary Addington, also granted bail to the tune of GH�7,000 each with two sureties each to tow other cattle owners, Adam Umaru and Musah Iddrisu, to reappear on September 9, 2010.
They pleaded not guilty because according to them, they were not the rightful owners of the cattle.
The accused persons were all arrested on bench warrant for failing to appear in court on August 11, 2010 when the case was called.
Prosecuting, Miss Linda Kumbonu of the Metro Public Health Department of the AMA, told the court that all the accused persons lived in Nima and during an inspection by the Environmental Health Officers found that the animals were being kept at their premises.
She said despite several warnings and health education for cattle owners to relocate their animals from the metropolis they failed to comply
with the directives.
Miss Kumbonu told the court that stray cattle in the metropolis was a violation of the bye-laws and a serious nuisance which also involved
indiscriminate defecating by the animals and causing traffic jams and accidents.
She said all efforts to curb the situation had proved futile hence the summons for the accused persons to appear in court.