A twenty-five year old third year chemistry student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been sentenced to 10 years in hard labour for robbing a fellow student.
Nana Yaw Kennedy Abrokwa was handed the sentence by the Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Mrs Mary Nsenkyire on Thursday.
He pleaded guilty to one count of robbery and was convicted on his own plea by the court.
Facts of the case
According to the facts of the case as was presented by Chief Inspector (C/Inspector) Felix Akowuah, both the complainant and convict were students of KNUST.
He said while the convict was studying chemistry, the complainant was pursuing a course in Law.
He said on March 19, 2016 between the hours of 6 and 6:30 am, the complainant, Miss Ruby Akua Bour-Donkor, a resident of Gaza Hostel on campus, was on her way to the gym at Ayeduase, close to the university.
C/Inspector Akowuah said on reaching a section of the road popularly known as Mango Road, the convict, who was a non-residential student, emerged from the bush and ordered her to surrender her phone to him.
Without waiting for her to comply, he said Abrokwa hit her with his hand and snatched the phone and her sports bag from her hand containing an Iphone 4 phone valued at GHC2, 000; ATM card, driver license, $300 and GHC20.00 and other personal items and run into the nearby bush.
C/Inspector Akowuah said the complainant raised an alarm which attracted people to the scene and the university security man detailed at the Botanic Garden informed about the incident.
According to him, few hours later, the security man managed to arrest the convict at his hideout at the Botanic Garden and had the bag of the complainant with some of the contents on him.
He said Abrokwa later led the security man and other witnesses to where he disposed of the driver’s licence, the ATM card and other ID cards in the garden.
Abrokwa was later handed over to the KNUST police and the complainant also identified the items to be hers.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Very unfortuanate for such a young man who could have been very useful to resort to such act.But seems the prison will help correct or reform him .Also 10yrs too much.
Wow, people referring to highway robbery as petty! No wonder criminal acts are committed with impunity if you particularly belong a certain "class", highly educated. The question at stake is not about who committed the crime, but what crime has been committed.Only God Knows what will happen to state or institutional resources should this guy be in a position of trust where he has access to them.
He needs to appeal the sentence. He should have been sanctioned by the University authorities instead of the court. His life is being wasted and the Ghanaian society will suffer for it instead of finding innovative solutions to make him useful. Where is Woyome?
Can't common sense be introduced into our law courts? People who have stolen millions of dollars are still sleeping with their wives at home! Can't they bond him or even hand him a non custodial sentence? Witchcraft!
Shame unto the fake judge...women in power indeed,only few have heart.he deserves punishment but not this.
Ten years? How? I mean how? This is shear wickedness...
And woyome is there! You jail someone who stol a 2 thousand cedi phone for 10 years! Seth terkpe stol $200 million dollars of our own money and invested it in our own Treasury bills and he's still outside prisonn. J A Kufuor stollenn a huge percentage of our oil money through EO group and he's still outside prisonn, Mahama stol the whole merchant bank, he even turned off our lights so he could bring in jaguda power companies to defraudd Ghana and he's still outside prisonn. Massa 10 weeks is more sensibll
And the court sentences him 10 years with hard labour.who is his lawyer, who couldn't argue out the sentence to be reduced for even pleading guilty. What a country.smh
***barred word*** judicial system in Ghana. No communal punishment for such robbery, just priding themselves in increasing inmate counts, without legislation to utilise such people in nation building. Coupled with the fact that they don't have adequate spacing in our penitentiaries. Why was I born Ghanaian? Ahhh God! This county is just a shithole! No leaders, just a bunch of ***barred word*** nerds leading an equally ***barred word*** pack
***barred word*** judicial system in Ghana. No communal punishment for such robbery, just priding themselves in increasing inmate counts without legislation to utilize such people in nation building. Could with the fact they don't have adequate spacing. Why was I born Ghana? Ahhh God! This county is just a shithole! No leaders, just a bunch of ***barred word*** needs leading an equally ***barred word*** pack.