By Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, Aug. 29, GNA
– A 25-year-old Nigerian Chijioke Amadi was on Wednesday sentenced to a fine of
GH¢2,400.00 by an Accra Circuit Court for snatching the bags of money changers
containing different currencies to the tune of GH¢53,610.00.
Amadi, unemployed,
will in default, serve two years imprisonment in hard labour. He denied the
offence but was found culpable.
His accomplice, one
Ndubueze Odoemenam, also unemployed, together with Amadi jumped bail when they
were granted bail of GH¢55,000.00 with three sureties each but Amadi was
re-arrested whilst Odoemenam, is still on the run.
They were charged
with conspiracy to commit crime and stealing.
Police Chief
Inspector Rosina Tetteh told the Court presided over by Madam Marian Affoh that
the prosecuting witnesses are Abdul Rahman and Abubakari Nuhu trades in Foreign
Exchange at Tudu in Accra.
On May 17, 2017, at
about 20:00 hours Amadi and Odoemenam, who lived at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange
went to Tudu on a motorbike with the intension to steal.
He said Amadi
approached Rahman and pretended to be changing his Naira for Cedis as Odoemenam
waited on the motorbike.
Amadi then picked a
small bag on Rahman’s laps containing GH¢35,000.00, joined onto the waiting
bike and they sped-off.
The Prosecution said
12 days later, the accused persons with the same modus operandi stole
GH¢9,500.00, 160,000 CFA and 42,500 Naira from Nuhu.
Chief Inspector
Tettteh said on June 20, same year, the two were published in the media upon
their arrest in a similar offence by the Cantonments Police.
The Prosecution
witnesses then saw them and proceeded to the police, where they identified the
accused persons in an identification parade as the thieves.
After further
probing, the two were processed for court.
GNA