Court remands two for robbery

Two persons who allegedly robbed an ex-Military Officer and his four daughters at gunpoint in Teshie and made away with a laptop and four mobile phones two years ago on Monday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.

Baba Anaba Musah and Evans Ogbey, aka Akwada Moko, unemployed, have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery.

They have pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh.

Ogbey informed the court that he was being accused wrongly, saying that, he had been beaten by the Police at Teshie and at the Greater Accra Regional Police Command after he denied knowledge of the crime.

He expressed fears that he would be beaten by the Police if he was sent back to the Regional Police Command, and that, he was not called Akwada Moko as alleged by the Police.

The trial judge told Ogbey that he would be given time to tell his story. The court, however, remanded Ogbey and Musah into Police custody to reappear on August 17.

Meanwhile, a different court had convicted two accomplices, Samuel Bortey and Alex Ametepey Tetteh, to a jail term of 23 years on similar charges.

Chief Inspector Kofi Adu, who held brief, narrated that the complainant was Mr Emmanuel Quartey, who resides at Agblezaa, whiles the accused persons live at Teshie.

Chief Inspector Adu said the accused persons and their convicted accomplices went to the house of the complainant at about 0200 hours with a locally manufactured pistol and machetes and forcefully broke into the house of the complainant.

On entering the house, Chief Inspector Kofi Adu said, the accused persons and the convicts subjected the ex- military officer and his four daughters to severe beating.

Prosecution said they made away with a laptop and four mobile phones.

Chief Inspector Adu said two months later, Tetteh and Bortey were arrested and in their investigation caution statement they admitted the offence and mentioned Musah and Ogbey as their accomplices.

Tetteh and Bortey, however, after going through full trial were found guilty of the offence and sentenced to 23 years each.

A month later, Musah, who was in the custody of the Police in Tema in another robbery case, admitted his involvement in robbing the complainant and mentioned Ogbey as an accomplice.

On July 24, this year Ogbey was picked up at Teshie Cold Store, a popular joint at Teshie. In Ogbey’s investigation caution statement he admitted the offence.