A Kumasi High Court, Presided over by Justice K. A. Pobih, on Wednesday ,convicted a Kumasi-based driver, Abubarkar Amadu, who robbed a number of people in Kumasi of their property at gunpoint in 2007 to serve a 21-year jail term in hard labour.
This was after the court had found Abubarkar guilty of having conspired with two others to snatch a vehicle, mobile phones, jewellery and cash from their victims in December last year.
Just before the court convicted Amadu, he pleaded with the court to set him free, on the grounds that he had repented from his actions and would totally be law abiding. The court ignored his plea and convicted him.
A State Attorney, Ms Akua Adu-Gyamfi, who prosecuted told the court that Abubarkar Amadu and two others, now at large, robbed one Georgina Adu-Poku at gunpoint.
She said the convict and his accomplice on December 4, 2007, broke into the house of their victim at Tanoso in Kumasi, and at gunpoint, succeeded in robbing her of a GH¢920.
She said not satisfied with their actions, the convict and his accomplices again attacked one Thomas Amankwaa, who resided at Afrancho in Kumasi on December 12, 2007 and snatched his Fiat taxi with registration number AS 722 Z at knifepoint.
Ms Adu-Gyamfi said a day after the robbery at Afrancho, the convict and his accomplice again invaded Kwadaso, another Kumasi suburb, and succeeded in robbing one Agartha Dua of her hand bag, which contained a Motorola cell phone valued at GH¢120 and a quantity of jewellery valued at GH¢18.00 and bolted.
She said police investigations led to the arrest of the convict but his accomplices escaped.
She said after investigations Amadu was charged and convicted.
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