A Tarkwa Circuit court has sentenced two unemployed persons, Andrews Bombade (alias Azay), 32, and Alhassan Fusseini, 22, to a total of 140 years imprisonment for robbery.
They pleaded not guilty.
Prosecuting Police Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court presided over by Mr Samuel Obenh-Diawuo that on March 30 last year at about 01:20 hours at New Yakase near Enchi, the accused and four others now at large, armed with guns and cutlasses, laid ambush in a forest at Apuja village near the Ghana-Ivory Coast boarder.
He said the robbers blocked the main road with logs and stones and robbed the passengers on board a KIA truck with registration number AW 5309. They also took away the victims millions of Ghana cedis, CFA francs, mobile phones, jewels and cloths.
The prosecutor said after the robbery, the accused persons hijacked the KIA truck and loaded their booty in it and sped off towards New Yakase Junction leaving the 20 victims stranded and helpless.
He said later they abandoned the KIA truck and joined a taxi Toyota corolla with registration number AS 2671 T at Old Yakase.
While attempting to flee from the area, some youth confronted them because they had heard series of announcements on a local FM station about the incident.
When a search was conducted on them, CFA 141,000, GH¢15 and a mobile phone were found. The other accomplices, however, managed to escape.