Two second-hand clothes sellers arrested and bailed for robbery

One Benjamin Asante, nicknamed Ballack, with his accomplice, Alfred Dadson, pet named Bullshit, and Nana Konzor, both second-hand clothes sellers, have been arrested and bailed for robbery charges.

The two were granted bail at an Accra Circuit Court in an amount of GH¢20,000 with two sureties who are gainfully employed, and are to reappear before the court on July 27, 2020.

Asante and Dadson were arraigned before the court presided over by Her Honour Afia Owusu Appiah for the offences of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery contrary to 23(1) and 149 of the Criminal Offences (Act 1968).

The alleged robbers, according the Prosecutor, Chief Inspector William Boateng, were arrested on July 24, 2019 at CP Roundabout-Achimota in the Greater Accra Region, acted together with the common purpose to commit crime, robbery.

C/I Boateng told the court that on the said day, at the roundabout the accused robbed one Benjamin Quansah off his Samsung J5 prime mobile phone valued GH¢800, and his bag containing car documents driver’s licence, cover notes and an expired driver’s licence.

He said the complainant is self-employed and lives at Bortianor in Accra, while Asante and Dadson reside at Kasoa Opekuma and Kasoa Breku respectively in the Central Region.

The prosecutor said the Achimota School Police in recent times has received numerous cases of robbery activities in that area, however, on July 24, 2019, at about 7:45 pm, Mr Quansah made a complaint about him being attacked while walking around the ACP area.

He said the accused persons attacked the complainant and dragged him on the pavement blocks into the forest reserve and collected his items.

The accused persons inflicted injuries on the left arm of the complainant in the course of the attack. The complainant rushed to the Achimota School Police Station and reported the case the same night,” C/I Boateng stated.

The accused persons were arrested by the police patrol team a few metres away from the crime scene and brought to the station.

“The complainant, on seeing the accused persons, identified them to the police as his attackers,” he said, and added, “police visited the robbery visited the scene of the crime and retrieved complainant’s medicated glasses and torn silver necklace.”

The accused persons, in their caution statement, denied the offence and pleaded not guilty to the charges.

 

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