Two students in court for allegedly robbing teacher at gunpoint

Two students have been charged in the Dansoman Circuit Court with robbery and conspiracy to rob.

Joshua Kwabena Nyador and Wisdom Ayekple have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Two other accomplices whose names were given as Toussant Afadolo and one Stanley are at large.

Nyador, Ayekple, and the other accomplices allegedly robbed the complainant, a teacher whose identity is concealed, of her iPhone XR and iPhone 6 at gunpoint.

The accused also succeeded in withdrawing GHC175 from the complainant’s mobile money account.

Not satisfied with their actions, they downloaded the complainant’s nude photos on her Instagram page and threatened to distribute them on social media if she declined to pay GHC5,000.

The court has admitted Nyador and Ayekple to bail in the sum of GHC1 million with two sureties, one to be justified.

The matter has been adjourned to November 25, 2024.

The prosecution’s case was that the complainant was a teacher who lives in Mempeasem, Accra.

The court heard that Nyador and Ayekple claimed to be level 200 students at the University of Ghana, Legon, and that they live at Madina Zongo Junction.

On July 12, 2024, at about 1900 hours, the complainant and her friend were sitting in front of her Mempeasem home when a white Toyota Corolla Spider approached them, and Stanley, who is still at large, pulled out a pistol and robbed them of an iPhone XR and an iPhone 6.

The prosecution said after robbing them of their phones, the accused withdrew GHC175 from the complainant’s mobile money account.

The court heard that the accused also gained access to the complainant’s Instagram account and downloaded her nude pictures.

According to the prosecution, Nyador called the complainant and informed her that he was a blogger and that if she did not pay him and his accomplices GHC5,000, he would distribute her naked videos on social media.

The complainant reported the matter to the police on August 17, 2024, and Nyador was arrested at his hideout in Madina Zongo Junction.

In his investigation caution statement, Nyador admitted to the crime and disclosed that his schoolmates, Ayekple, Afadolo, and Stanley, sent phones to him, as well as a pistol in a big pack, following the robbery.

He also admitted threatening the complainant with her nude videos.

The investigation further found that the first accused, Nyador, removed the complainant’s SIM card from her phone and inserted it into three different mobile phones that had different numbers.

The prosecution said that the numbers sent messages to the complainant’s phone number, and investigations found that one of the mobile phones was registered in Nyador’s name, while the other was registered to his father, Edwin Nyador.

On August 19, 2024, Ayekple, in his caution statement, denied taking part in the robbery.

Efforts are underway to trace and arrest the other accomplices.