A Circuit Court at Juabeng in the Ashanti Region has sentenced four persons to a combined term of 62 years in\u00a0prison with hard labour for robbery.<\/p>\n
Osman Adam, a 32-year old petty trader; Yussif Issahaku, a 29-year old driver; Kadi Sumaila, a 26-year old driver and Osman Alhassan, a 20-year old driver\u2019s mate were arrested by the Tafo Pankrono Divisional Police Command on Monday, March 5, 2018 for their involvement in a robbery at Moshie Zongo, a suburb of Kumasi.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”urHJ6M3bbNaqnzh4UL6g7XwpNynnjiks”]The court sentenced Osman Adams to 17 years whilst the three others; Yussif Issahaku, Kadi Sumaila and Osman Alhassan were also sentenced to 15 years each with hard labour.<\/p>\n
They were charged with conspiracy to rob and robbery. According to Police, Osman Adam who is a relative of the victim, Fati Abubakar, on March 4, 2018 conspired with the three other suspects to rob her.<\/p>\n
All the four suspects, armed with machetes, knives and an axe\u00a0converged around the victim\u2019s provision shop and robbed her after she had closed at about 10:30 pm on that day.<\/p>\n
The suspects taped the victim\u2019s lips to prevent her from shouting.<\/p>\n
The managed to take away her handbag which contained an amount of Ghc 800, an Infinix mobile phone and other personal belongings.<\/p>\n
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By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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