Three remanded over alleged robbery at Toase Senior High

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By
Charles Tawiah, GNA

Nkawie, (Ash), Jan.
21, GNA – Two day-students of the Toase Senior High School and an electrician,
who allegedly conspired to attack and rob some boarding students on the
school’s compound in broad day light, have been remanded into police custody by
the Nkawie Circuit Court.

Fred Barnes,
Alexander Anane Poku, the day-students, and Michael Adu Bobie, the electrician,
reportedly wielding locally-made pistols and machetes, broke the fence wall of
the school on January 12, this year, and on entering the compound at around
1530 hours, attacked the students who were then eating on a basketball pitch.

The accused
allegedly took away their mobile phones together with an unspecified amount of
cash and bolted.

They pleaded not
guilty and would come back to the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson
Abbey, on February 04, this year.

Kofi Adu, an
accomplice, is on the run.

Detective Chief
Inspector Comfort Amankwaa, prosecuting, told the Court that the suspects were
residents of Toase in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality.

She said the victims
identified Barnes as one of the day-students of the school and made a report to
the Senior Housemaster.

The Prosecution said
the Senior Housemaster then made a report to the Nkawie police who arrested him
and during interrogation, he mentioned the other suspects as his accomplices
and they were also arrested.

Prosecution said the
police retrieved the weapons and the phones from them during a search.

They were later
charged and brought before the court.

GNA