A 43-year-old man accused of posing as a soldier to defraud a businessman of GH¢192,000 under the pretext of providing security has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court.
Mahama Sani Razak was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢90,000 with two sureties, one to be justified and the other a government worker earning not less than GH¢2,500.
The Court ordered him to deposit his Ghana Card at the registry and report to the Police every Tuesday.
Defence counsel, Mr Theophilus Donkor, pleaded for bail, stating that the accused had four wives, three of whom were police officers, and several children who depended on him for their livelihood.
He told the Court that the accused had denied the offence, had a fixed place of abode, was not a flight risk, and should not be punished before his guilt was established.
Razak, also known as Major Zack Gariba Tanko, denied promising the complainant, Mr Lambon Justice Iddrisu, that he would deploy junior military personnel to protect his land from land guards.
The Court, presided over by Mrs Basilia Adjei-Tawiah, ordered the accused to reappear on April 13, 2026.
Razak had earlier been denied bail and remanded into Police custody on February 2, 2026.
Presenting the facts, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo said the complainant, a businessman and resident of North Legon, owned plots of land at Kwabenya.
He said in March 2025, the accused met the complainant and introduced himself as a military officer.
Prosecution said the accused later took the complainant to Burma Camp and claimed he was a Major with the Military Police Unit of the Ghana Armed Forces.
According to the prosecution, when the complainant complained about disturbances from land guards on his property, the accused assured him that he had the authority to deploy junior officers to provide protection.
The complainant, convinced by the representation, paid the accused GH¢192,000 for the purported operation.
The accused provided three MTN Mobile Money numbers with different account names through which the money was received.
Prosecution said the accused failed to fulfil the promise and went into hiding.
Checks at the Ghana Armed Forces later confirmed that the accused was not a military officer, leading to a Police report and his subsequent arrest.
Investigations established that one of the Mobile Money accounts belonged to the accused’s wife, who admitted receiving and withdrawing unspecified amounts for him.
The accused was first put before Circuit Court Three on July 8, 2025, where he pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of GH¢300,000 with two sureties.
However, after meeting the bail conditions, he failed to appear in court, and the case was struck out on November 4, 2025, for want of prosecution.
Prosecution said the Accra Regional Police Command later received information that the accused had been arrested at Akuse in the Eastern Region in January 2026 in connection with a similar offence.
A fresh charge sheet was subsequently filed, and the accused was re-arraigned.
The prosecution opposed the bail application, arguing that the accused was a fugitive and likely to abscond.
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