Unemployed gets 25 years for robbery

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• STUPID DOCTOR 10 years ago

  STUPID CRIMINAL, YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN LIFE IN JAIL. KWASEA!
  
  YOU WANT THE GOODIES OF LIFE ON THE CHEAP. LAZY ASSHOLE!
  
  STUPID DOCTOR, JUST THE IPHONE AND THE TABLET COULD PROVIDE ALL THE FUNCTIONS YOU WERE SEEKING IN TH ...
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  STUPID CRIMINAL, YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN LIFE IN JAIL. KWASEA!
  
  YOU WANT THE GOODIES OF LIFE ON THE CHEAP. LAZY ASSHOLE!
  
  STUPID DOCTOR, JUST THE IPHONE AND THE TABLET COULD PROVIDE ALL THE FUNCTIONS YOU WERE SEEKING IN THE OTHER PIECES OF EQUIPMENT.
  
  YOUR GREED COST YOUR RELATIVE HER PUSSY AND NEARLY COST YOU YOUR LIFE.
  
  POOR COUNTRY, CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION, SHOW-OFF LIFESTYLES WHILE THEIR RELATIVES IN THE VILLAGES ARE DYING OF HUNGER. FOOLS!

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• Reg, London 10 years ago

  I will in no way trivialise crime, but I'm sorry some of these sentences meted out to offenders in Ghana is pure bonkers!
  
  For God's sake, these stolen items are just material goods, not a human life. In countries where th ...
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  I will in no way trivialise crime, but I'm sorry some of these sentences meted out to offenders in Ghana is pure bonkers!
  
  For God's sake, these stolen items are just material goods, not a human life. In countries where they have far more sensible sentencing guidelines, a crime of this nature will attract one or more of either a community sentence, fine or short custodial sentence.
  
  We really ridicule ourselves with these sentences which suggest we value these material items so much than even human life. When you have even 3-10 year olds owning phones, tablets, laptops, etc here, it should tell you just how ordinary these items are here.....but not in good old Ghana where they're valued as if they were handed over straight from God.
  
  20 years indeed!! Utter nonsense! And we wonder why our jails are full to ludicrous levels and have become cesspits.

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• trueGhanaian 10 years ago

  He should have been given a life sentence

  He should have been given a life sentence

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• A CONCERN CITIZEN 10 years ago

  I DON'T CONDONE ROBBERY. Really, I see these things as material. AFTERALL SOME JUDGES CONDONE AND ENDORSE THEIR SIGNATURE WITH FAKE BUSINESS MEN TO STEAL AND WRECK THE NATION'S COFFERS AND GO FREE. JUST BOOK,KEEP HIS PICTURES ...
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  I DON'T CONDONE ROBBERY. Really, I see these things as material. AFTERALL SOME JUDGES CONDONE AND ENDORSE THEIR SIGNATURE WITH FAKE BUSINESS MEN TO STEAL AND WRECK THE NATION'S COFFERS AND GO FREE. JUST BOOK,KEEP HIS PICTURES AND FINGURE PRINTS, PRESURE HIM TO RETRIEVE THE THINGS AMIDST CAUTION.AFTERALL TOP CIVIL SERVANTS AND PRESIDENTS HAVE ILLEGALLY STOLLEN GOLD AND MONIES FROM THE NATION WITHOUT QUESTIONING AND STILL BRAGGING AROUND.

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• Ghana Man 10 years ago

  Read the Article well. What of Raping the girl? Isn't that enough for sending him to Jail?

  Read the Article well. What of Raping the girl? Isn't that enough for sending him to Jail?

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• Gabby 10 years ago

  Reg London, I pray u will one day be a victim of robbers and u will see the consequences of robbery. You are in a village near prestea not London. Foolish guy

  Reg London, I pray u will one day be a victim of robbers and u will see the consequences of robbery. You are in a village near prestea not London. Foolish guy

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• GABARDINE 10 years ago

  HOW DO YOU KNOW?
  ARE YOU A HACKER LIKE SARPONG?
  MAYBE IS VILLAGE IS CALLED LONDON, GHANA.
  
  HE DID NOT TELL YOU HE IS IN LONDON, ENGLAND OR LONDON, CANADA, DID HE?

  HOW DO YOU KNOW?
  ARE YOU A HACKER LIKE SARPONG?
  MAYBE IS VILLAGE IS CALLED LONDON, GHANA.
  
  HE DID NOT TELL YOU HE IS IN LONDON, ENGLAND OR LONDON, CANADA, DID HE?

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• Reg, London 10 years ago

  @Ghana Man, I'm in a village near Prestea? Do humour me. I am not even going to dignify or indulge your comment with the response it truly deserves, but let me briefly enlighten you.
  
  The only reason you feel so strongly ab ...
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  @Ghana Man, I'm in a village near Prestea? Do humour me. I am not even going to dignify or indulge your comment with the response it truly deserves, but let me briefly enlighten you.
  
  The only reason you feel so strongly about my condemnation of the sentencing for this crime is because you obviously are stuck in the pitiful ignorance and stupidity that you find yourself in wherever you are in Ghana. Maybe if you travelled and broadened your thinking a bit, you'd soon grasp and appreciate the point I made earlier.
  
  It's obvious you've never lived and experienced life anywhere outside of Ghana, otherwise you'd realise rape and robbery isn't confined within the borders of Ghana and when it takes place in other parts of the world where judges engage their brains (unlike most judges in Ghana), you do not get a 25 year jail sentence. Do you think there are not far worse crimes that take place in other parts of the world?
  
  If you wish to learn something valuable and sensible, I dare you to research or ask others who're much travelled and far knowledgeable than you, what sentence a similar crime in the developed world would attract. It's not about leniency, it's about common sense, for if you deem 25 years fitting for the crime committed by this offender, what then for a murderer.....a 1000 years?
  
  Then again this sentence by a Ghanaian judge holds little surprise to me, nor does your reaction. After all, this is the same country where a person can steal a chicken and get sentenced to a number of years in jail and will most likely get lynched by lunatics like yourself. Yes, a lousy chicken that costs less than the minimum hour's wage in probably every 1st world country!
  
  The same country where I learned a few weeks ago a pregnant woman got sentenced by another loony judge to 5 years in jail, simply because she owed (not stole) and failed to pay a 3,000 cedi debt, the equivalent of approximately a paltry £600 or $1,000!
  
  It was bad enough for the woman to be in poverty (as it the case with many in Ghana) but to then be punished for her plight and being unable to pay a debt, simply said it all about the insanity that reigns in the Ghanaian judicial system. For that reason, a poor child had to be born and raised in a Ghana jail for 5 bloody years. I bet you feel that's justice too huh?
  
  Engage your brain fella !!

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• Reg, London 10 years ago

  My apologies to @Ghana Man but that last comment from me was actually directed at Gabby.

  My apologies to @Ghana Man but that last comment from me was actually directed at Gabby.

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• mohammed salley sinare 10 years ago

  i cant simple believe this sentenced, its too much and we are talking about human life here not just an animal, no body get 25 years in western countaries, Do you think 25 years its 25 Days oh my God what is wrong with this j ...
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  i cant simple believe this sentenced, its too much and we are talking about human life here not just an animal, no body get 25 years in western countaries, Do you think 25 years its 25 Days oh my God what is wrong with this judge, 25 years of this man life is gone and by the time he cames out of prison then he becames useles, may God help mother Ghana

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• Yaw Imhotep, London 10 years ago

  These judges are wicked!!!! People in government are stealing millions and they go away freely when they are caught. Why so many years for this poor unemployed. They have to be realistic and humane.

  These judges are wicked!!!! People in government are stealing millions and they go away freely when they are caught. Why so many years for this poor unemployed. They have to be realistic and humane.

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• Papa Yaw 10 years ago

  Good

  Good

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• Kobena Bosom 10 years ago

  Initially, thought the sentence was harsh like pick-pocketing. But this sort of crime is very well predetermined the use of knives and worst of all "raping" begs the question if the thief has HIV Aids, what shall we say?.
  Th ...
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  Initially, thought the sentence was harsh like pick-pocketing. But this sort of crime is very well predetermined the use of knives and worst of all "raping" begs the question if the thief has HIV Aids, what shall we say?.
  The sentence is very modest then.

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• Joe 10 years ago

  I would rather speak against the robbery but not the sentence. I agree the items are material things not human life but have you thought of how difficult it is to acquire such items in Africa as compared to the west? What abo ...
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  I would rather speak against the robbery but not the sentence. I agree the items are material things not human life but have you thought of how difficult it is to acquire such items in Africa as compared to the west? What about the rape?
  Wait until you experience such an incident and you will call for life sentence.

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• Reg, London 10 years ago

  Joe, I take your point entirely and I've always believed most of the judges in Ghana and some of the ignorant and less-enlightened public who consider such sentences adequate, only get swayed by how such items are valued in G ...
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  Joe, I take your point entirely and I've always believed most of the judges in Ghana and some of the ignorant and less-enlightened public who consider such sentences adequate, only get swayed by how such items are valued in Ghana.
  
  In my book, it's not only bonkers, but laughable for any judge to impose a sentence that's simply determined on the basis of the value placed on the stolen item or items in Ghana.
  
  I can guarantee you no judge in the developed world will ever jail anyone for stealing a mobile phone, laptop or tablet, as they're practically insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
  
  It makes a complete mockery of our sentencing guidelines and judicial system in general, in the eyes of the outside world.

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