Painter Caged For Robbery

By: Ethel Mensah ([email protected])
A professional painter, Abdul Rahman Mohammed, has been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for robbery and causing harm.

The accused was said to have robbed one Faustina Attikpo, a Medicine Counter Assistant, of her Itel tablet Phone valued at GHC300, two (2) pieces of Beryline with Codeine, estimated at          GHC 72 and cash amounting to GHC80 at Asofan, near Ofankor, in the Greater Accra Region.

He pleaded not guilty to the three charges of conspiracy to commit crime, to wit robbery, robbery and causing harm levelled against him. The court, presided over by Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, remanded him into Police custody to reappear on July 8, 2016, for hearing. Meanwhile his accomplice is currently on the run.

Facts
Presenting the facts to the court, the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Kwabena Adu narrated that, the complainant is a Medicine Counter Assistant who works at a Pharmacy shop at Asofan, a suburb of Accra, whereas the accused person is a painter residing at Kanda.

Chief Inspector Adu told the court that, on June 16, 2016, at about 8:00pm, Faustina was in the Pharmacy shop delivering her normal duties when the two accused persons, one at large, came on a motor bike and parked in front of the shop.

The accused person, who was the pillion rider got down and entered the shop, under the pretext of buying a drug.  Whiles Faustina was about to bring out the medicine as requested, the accused, Abdul Rahman quickly pulled out a knife and rushed on Faustina behind the counter, threatened to stab her if she dares make a sound and forced her to the chamber of the shop.

Chief Adu added that, Abdul Rahman later took all the daily sales from a rubber container where Faustina usually keeps her sales, together with her wallet and a mobile phone. After they had succeeded in robbing Faustina, they headed towards their motor bike.

Faustina, who at that moment was restless, followed up and shouted for help and in the midst of that, a young man by name Richmond Yeboah, who heard the scream, chased the robbers and kicked Abdul Rahman off the motor bike with his leg.

Yeboah, in an attempt to hold the accused was stabbed at the right side of the lower abdomen. The motor rider, sensing danger, sped off the scene.  According to Chief Inspector Adu, the young men who were at the scene assisted and the accused was over-powered.

However, the victim, who was stabbed by the accused, was rushed to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for treatment. The accused was handed over to the Police for investigation.