A chop bar operator and her unemployed daughter have been remanded by a Bawku District Magistrate court for causing harm to a 21-year-old Senior High School (SHS) student.
Lamisi Guma and Azumi Guma were put before the court presided over by Paul Alhassan.
The two have been remanded into prison custody and will re-appear on May 30, 2011. The first accused person, Azumi Gumah, according to the police, is facing charges of causing harm while the second accused, Lamisi Guma, the chop bar operator and mother of the first accused, has been charged with abetment of the crime.
Giving the facts of the case, police investigators disclosed that on May 5, 2011, the victim, Abariga Mbawine, a second-year student of the Walewale Senior Secondary Technical High School (WALSECTECH) was walking with his colleagues when they met the first accused.
According to police sources, when they met, they were reported to have engaged in some confrontations at Banzua, a community near the Bawku municipality, but went their separate ways after the incident.
The following day, Abariga Mbawine and his friends went to a chop bar owned by mother of the first accused person to eat but Azumi threatened them to leave the place, or else she would pour hot soup on them.
The victim and his friends, for their own safety, left the chop bar and went to another place to eat but were attacked by the suspect when they were returning from the eatery.
Police said Azumi, who was close to a tea seller, scooped some boiling water on a coal pot and poured it on the chest of the school boy who shouted in pain, with Azumi attempting to add more.
One Salifu Mbilla, a witness in the case, went to the rescue of the victim and prevented the suspect from further causing harm to the poor student who sustained various degrees of burns.
Mother of the first suspect Lamisi, who had arrived at the scene, advised her daughter to pour more water on the victim or his rescuer but the police immediately came to the scene and arrested Azumi and Lamisi. Due to the unavailability of female cells in remand prisons in Bawku and Navrongo, the two were transported to Tamale.
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