TWO JAILED 63 YEARS FOR ROBBERY (PAGE 34, JULY 13)

THE two suspects linked to the killing of former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association, Samuel Enin, have each been sentenced to 63 years in prison with hard labour for their roles in various robberies spanning a period of seven years.
The convicts, Kwame Ayew, 25, and Sheriff Kabore, 24, both drivers, were handed the sentences when they appeared before the Kumasi High Court, presided over by Mr Justice K.A. Pobih, last Wednesday.
Ayew is already serving a 21-year jail term for a previous robbery case, bringing his total sentence to 84 years.
The two were members of a gang who terrorised residents of Kenyase, Buokrom and Pankrono in Kumasi.
The convicts will reappear before the court on July 24, 2000 on other robbery charges.
Already, the Attorney-General’s Department in Kumasi has indicated that it is almost ready to put the two before court for killing the former GJA regional chairman.
Two of their accomplices, Baba, alias Oldman, and Joshua, have been on the run since 2007.
The case of the prosecution was that at about 2 p.m. on December 25, last year, the complainant in the case went home at the Pankrono Estate with goods he had cleared from the Tema Port in two pick-ups.
While unloading the goods, the two robbers stood a distance as if they were conversing but watched what was going on in the house.
The following day, the convicts and one Haruna Issa attacked the house at gunpoint at night and took away the pick-ups, mobile phones, money and many other items. The complainant was assaulted in the process.
Ayew and Kabore were arrested and consequently arraigned on June 13, 2000 and remanded in custody.
On the day that Ayew was arrested, several victims identified him as one of those who robbed them.
The prosecution said on January 31, 2007 the accused persons once again attacked and robbed a couple at Adabraka-Kumasi of a pump-action gun, mobile phones, cash and several other valuable items and used the gun to rob one Shettu who eventually was able to recognise Ayew.
Sensing danger, the two robbers went into hiding but they were eventually arrested from their hideout, a place between Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region and Wa in the Upper West Region.