Ten CEPS officials who are standing trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of cocoa beans from the Western Region to neighbouring Cote D’Ivoire, on Friday had their bail condition of reporting on every Friday to the CID headquarters in Accra, changed. Each of them will on every Friday report to any Police station closer to them. This was after counsel for the 10 CEPS officials, lawyers Appiah- Kubi and Raymond Bagnabu, among others pleaded with the presiding Judge, Patience Mills-Tetteh to relax the condition of their clients reporting to the CID head office in Accra since the main investigations had been completed. In addition, all the suspects live in the Western Region and therefore coming to Accra involves a lot of time and risk. They also argued that the suspects would not jump bail should they be made to report to any nearest police station. Mrs. Mills Tetteh in her admission to the request indicated that, she believes ‘every police station is a police station’ and they must therefore co-ordinate with the headquarters. The bail sum of GH¢50,000 with one surety each to be justified, given to all the suspects at the previous sitting is however, still in force. Meanwhile Prosecutor Abraham Annor told the court that all the necessary investigations had been conducted and the docket was being forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Department for advice. This did not go down well with the Judge who therefore urged the prosecutor to make sure that the docket reaches the A.G’s Department on time so that the case could be heard and subsequently dealt with as early as possible. The case has been adjourned to June 14, 2010. The CEPS officers, Gabriel Dimado, James Asomani, Isaac Kwasi Amoako, Samuel Appiah, Rockson Eric Appiadu, Paul Gyamesi, Epei Abbah, Adolph Nii Armah, Propser Agyei and Appiah Kubi were arrested after an under-cover investigation by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Yaa Asantewaa/Asempa News