{"id":1270981,"date":"2022-12-28T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/farmer-jailed-20-years-for-robbing-woman-of-mobile-phone-worth-gh%c2%a2500\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:33:07","slug":"farmer-jailed-20-years-for-robbing-woman-of-mobile-phone-worth-gh%c2%a2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/28\/farmer-jailed-20-years-for-robbing-woman-of-mobile-phone-worth-gh%c2%a2500\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer jailed 20 years for robbing woman of mobile phone worth GH\u00a2500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1652259432_217_BLACK-MAN-HANDCUFFS-facebook-696x348-150x150-Copy-696x696.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Jail\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Bekwai Circuit Court in Ashanti Region presided over by His Honour Mark Diboro has sentenced a 31-year-old farmer, Michael Nhyira Cobbina to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a woman of her itel mobile phone worth GH\u00a2500.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Nhyira Cobina was convicted on his plea of guilty to offence of robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Eric Twum, told the court that the complaint Bernice Yeboah and the convict live in Aduabin community in the Bosomtwi district in the Ashanti region.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>One Thursday, December 1, 2022 at about 9:00pm, Michael Nhyira Cobbina, armed with knife attacked the complainant who was sleeping with her two children in a room.<\/p>\n<p>The traumatized children started screaming for help but could not be heard due to the remoteness of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Under knife point the convict threatened and demanded the complainant to give him money but the complainant had no money hence gave him her itel mobile phone which contained GH\u00a22000 e-cash in mobile wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, a witness in the case who bought the mobile phone for the complaint saw the wife of the accused in possession of same stolen phone.<\/p>\n<p>The witness gave the complainant a tip off which she quickly reported the case at Feyiase police station on December 8, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Police trailed and retrieved the mobile phone. A search on the phone saw the pictures of Michael Nhyira Cobbina together with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Cobbina was immediately arrested by the Police.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted robbing the woman during interrogation and led police to his room to hand over exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Nhyira Cobina was charged with robbery contrary to section 149 of the criminal offences Act, Act 29 of 1960 and arraigned.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"IdWeVb7rA2Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deplorable Town Roads: Tolon residents demonstrate against MP and government (28-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IdWeVb7rA2Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bekwai Circuit Court in Ashanti Region presided over by His Honour Mark Diboro has sentenced a 31-year-old farmer, Michael Nhyira Cobbina to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a woman of her itel mobile phone worth GH\u00a2500. Michael Nhyira Cobina was convicted on his plea of guilty to offence of robbery. The prosecutor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}