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Police Constable on trial for armed
robbery
Sekondi, June 10, Ghanadot/GNA- A 31 year old Policeman
constable is facing trial at the Sekondi High Court, charged
with assault and robbery.
He pleaded not guilty and has been remanded in prison
custody to re-appear before the court on June 23. His other
accomplice is however on the run.
Prosecuting, Madam Patience Klinogo Principal State Attorney
told the court presided over by Justice Robin Batu that on
January 30th 2007, Constable Daniel Amponsah, who was on
duty at the residence of the District Chief Executive of
Tarkwa, abandoned his post and went to the residence of one
Vitalia Kuubetesob, an employee of the Tarkwa Goldfields at
Cook Compound.
The prosecutor said Amponsah on entering the compound at
about 0515 hours, a dog in the house started barking and
alerted the victim and his family, who were having their
morning devotion of an intruder.
The entire family hid in the house, but one of the victim’s
daughter knew the voice of the suspect because she had
interacted with him a few days earlier.
She said two armed men dressed in black, entered the house
and started firing indiscriminately and then entered the
victim’s rooms, ransacked the drawers and bags and took away
GH˘200.
Some soldiers, who were on duty at the Goldfields area,
heard the shooting and rushed to the scene and the pair on
seeing the military vehicle abandoned an SMA riffle with 24
rounds of ammunition, one locally manufactured pistol with
cartridges and other items and fled through the bush.
The prosecutor said the victim’s daughter Gladys Kuubetesob,
who had seen and interacted with Amponsah on January 26,
last year in front of the Standard Bank at Tarkwa was able
to identify the suspect at a parade out of eight other
officers.
Madam Klinogo told the court that investigations revealed
that the suspect left his duty post at around 0430 hours and
not 0530 hours, as he claimed.
GNA
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