A circuit court in Cape Coast yesterday remanded Nana Korsah VII, the
48-year-old chief of Ekumfi-Ekumpoano into prison custody for allegedly
raping his ex-fiancé's daughter.

He pleaded not guilty and would be reappear on Friday.

Giving the facts of the case, the prosecutor, Police Inspector Daniel
Agbezuhlor, told the court presided over by Mr Beresford Acquah that on May
13, the victim, Adwoa Mensima, a 27-year-old tea seller in Tema, visited
her mother at Ekumfi-Ekumpoano.

At about 1900 hours on Saturday, May 14, the chief known in private life as
Kofi Ababu, invited her to his palace and asked her to buy him fried fish.

The prosecutor said when Adwoa returned from the errand, the chief asked
her to send the fish to one of his rooms in the palace but to her dismay he
followed up and locked the door.

He said the accused then told her that he wanted to have sexual intercourse
with her but she refused with the reason that her mother was his
ex-fiancée.

The chief then grabbed her and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her.

Inspector Agbezuhlor said Adwoa informed her mother about the incident. The
mother in turn reported it to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit
of the Ghana Police Service in Cape Coast.

The victim was issued with a medical form and the chief was arrested.