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The chief of Patuda near Kumasi, Nana Kusi Oboadum, has been arrested for allegedly demolishing a building under construction.

He was on Monday put before a Kumasi Circuit Court charged with causing unlawful damage to property and he pleaded not guilty.

He was granted a GHȼ40,000.00 bail with three sureties to make his next appearance on September 22.

Police Chief Inspector Felix Akowuah told the court, presided over by Mrs. Lydia Osei Marfo, that the complainant, Kwame Boamah, had acquired a building plot in Patuda on September 25, 2012.

This was long before Nana Oboadum became chief of the community.

The prosecution said no sooner had he been installed chief than he demanded that the accused paid a fee of GHȼ2,000.00 for the acquired plot he had started developing and he readily obliged.

The chief later asked for an additional GHȼ1,000.00, under the pretext of using it to secure the necessary land title documents for the complainant from the Manhyia Palace, which once again, he did.

Police Chief Inspector Akowuah said on April 20, at about 1100 hours, Nana Oboadum hired a bulldozer and caused to be levelled, the building which had reached the roofing stage.

A formal report was made with the police and he was arrested.