Two jailed 50 years for robbery

A Kumasi Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced two robbers to a total of 50 years imprisonment.

Tijani Abubakar and Majid Sulemana pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery and each would go in for 25 years.

Three of their accomplices, known only as Handamu, Abodam and Baba Abu, are however on the run.

Police Chief Inspector Isaac Mensah Apenteng told the court presided over by Justice William Boampong that the five on February 6 attacked and robbed traders at Doctor Mensah near the Kumasi Central Market.

Armed with locally manufactured pistols and cutlasses they shot one Nii Okai, a night watchman, on the left side. His crime, being that he had no money on him for the robbers.

They chased their victims, many of them women traders, to the central market to rob them of their monies.

Police Chief Inspector Apenteng said Okai and one Toffick Ahmed who lost his GH¢690.00 as well as two cellular phones to the robbers made a report to the Zongo Police and investigations led to their arrest at their Akwatialine hideout, two days after the crime.

They confessed to the robbery and mentioned fugitive Abu as the one who shot Okai.

The police retrieved GH¢240.00 from Abubakar.