An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced two persons accused of robbing a retired military officer and his four daughters at gunpoint to fifty years imprisonment.
The robbers attacked the military officer and his daughters at gunpoint and made way with a laptop and four mobile phones two years ago.
Baba Anaba Musah and Evans Ogbey, aka Akwada Moko both, unemployed, were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery. They are to serve 25 years each.
Though they pleaded not guilty before the court presided over by his worship Aboagye Tandoh, prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and had them convicted.
Ogbey told the court during the trial that he had been wrongly accused and added that he was 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.
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 narrated that the complainant was Emmanuel Quartey, who resides at Agblezaa, while 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.
Upon 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 caution statement they admitted the offence and mentioned Musah and Ogbey as their accomplices.
Tetteh and Bortey, 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.
According to the prosecution, Ogbey was picked up on July 27 at Teshie Cold Store, a popular joint at Teshie. In Ogbey’s caution statement he admitted the offence.
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