Four Armed Robbers To Stand Trial

Accra, (Greater Accra) 29 Oct.,

Accra, (Greater Accra) 29 Oct., Four persons charged with robbery were today committed by a circuit tribunal to stand trial at a high court in Accra on November 14. The accused are Ibrahim Alhassan, 23 and unemployed, Adjetey Adjei, 21, barber, Noi Nortey, 25, and Neequaye Kotey, 22, both stone crackers. The prosecution told the court that on November seven, last year at about 10 pm, two traders in sawn timber, Kwesi Barima Biney and Samuel Dadzie, were accosted by Alhassan, dressed in a green shirt and green cap and holding a locally made gun, between Amasaman and Ofankor. The prosecution said Alhassan requested for the permit and other documents covering the sawn timber, but before Biney could utter a word, the other accused persons emerged from the bush. They threatened the traders that if they should fail to produce the documents, the truck would be escorted to the Forestry Department yard at Achimota and impounded, and they will be made to pay a penalty. Alhassan then pointed the pistol at Biney, searched him, and took away 200,000 cedis he had on him. He further demanded one million cedis and asked Biney to join him in a waiting taxi to collect the money from his (Biney's) brother at Ofankor township. At the Ofankor police barrier, Biney made a report to the police, who arrested Alhassan and retrieved the 200,000 cedis from him. The prosecution said the other accused persons were later arrested.