Enoch Ofori, a driver’s mate will spend the next 10 years of his life in prison after the Ashaiman Circuit Court convicted and jailed him in hard labour for robbery.
The Ghana News
Agency (GNA) reports that Simon Gaga, the presiding judge convicted the accused
after he had pleaded guilty to the charges proffered against him, during an
investigation caution statement.
“The prosecutor,
Chief Inspector Samuel Aperweh, said the complainant, Gloria Asantewaa Kwabi,
35, is a trader who lives at Spintex, Accra, while the accused Ofori is a
driver’s mate and lives at Washington, a suburb of Ashaiman.
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“According to
the prosecution, on December 28, 2022, at about 1530 hours, the complainant
went to her husband Daniel Kasereko at Ashaiman market, who then picked up the
complainant on his motorbike with registration number M-13-AS3187 as a pillion
rider home.
“The Chief
Inspector said on getting to a place called Janelex School at Gbetsile, they
saw that the accused person also riding an unregistered black Royal motorbike
with his accomplice as a pillion rider was speeding toward the complainant and
the husband.
“The prosecution
told the court that on reaching the complainant and the husband, the accomplice
pushed the complainant and she fell down from the motorbike.
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“The prosecution
said in the process, the accomplice managed to overpower the complainant and
snatched her Infinix Hot 1Oi mobile phone valued at GHC 870.00 and cash in the
sum of GHC601.00 which was kept inside the back cover of the phone, and they
sped off.
“The prosecution
said the husband of the complaint gave the accused and his accomplice a hot chase,
they abandoned their motorbike in the process and took to their heels.
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“The prosecution
said with the help of other people, the accused person was arrested and brought
together with the motorbike to the Police Station at Zenu Atadeka.
“His accomplice,
however, managed to escape with the phone and the cash, the said motorbike has
been impounded at the Police Station,” the GNA report SAID.
Meanwhile, the
police continue their search for Ofori’s accomplice who he named Amankwa to
answer for the crime.
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