ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED vs. THE REPUBLIC [2020]DLCA9208

Date	2020-07-30
Suit No.	CRIMINAL APPEAL NO H2/3/2020
Citation No.	[2020]DLCA9208

DENNIS ADJEI J.A. (PRESIDING)

MERLEY A. WOOD J.A.

KYEI BAFFOUR J.A

DOMINIC BAKOMA (SSA) FOR THE RESPONDENT

APPELLANT IN PERSON

[2020]DLCA9208
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:
<o:p></o:p>DENNIS ADJEI J.A.
(PRESIDING), MERLEY
A. WOOD
J.A., KYEI
BAFFOUR J.A<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>MERLEY
A. WOOD
(MRS), J.A.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The
Appellant was convicted by the High Court, Accra on 17th January 2007
for the offences of conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery contrary to
sections 23(1) and 149 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and robbery
contrary to the same enactment and sentenced to fifty years and sixty years imprisonment
with hard labour consecutively to run concurrently. This is an appeal against
the said sentence. <o:p></o:p>The
Appellant who was the 3rd Accused in the trial court was charged
jointly with six other persons for the said offences.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>The
facts culminating in this appeal are as follows:<o:p></o:p>The
complainant, Seth Narh, Managing Director of Senaky Enterprise on 30th
January, 2002 requested his wife Rose Narh and two other workers of the company
to convey an amount of One Hundred and Twenty Million old cedis (ȼ120,000,000.00)
being the day’s proceeds to their house at Official Town, Ashiaman. Whilst the
three were aboard the complainant’s vehicle with registration number GT 7486 Q
with the money in a big bag on the car seat, upon reaching a section of the road
near the Official Town taxi rank, their vehicle was suddenly intercepted by a
Hyundai Excel Saloon car with registration number GT 5395 H with five armed men
on board. The armed men who came out of their vehicle ordered Rose Narh and the
two others to get out and lie on the grounds while they pointed their guns at
them and succeeded in taking away the bag containing the money. They drove away
firing warning shots.&nbsp; Upon a tip off,
the police arrested the 5th, 6th and 7th Accused
persons. During interrogation, the 5th Accused person who is a
relative of the complainant stated that he together with two other workers of
Seth Narh met at Official Town and planned </main>