An Accra Circuit Court has convicted a 43 years old unemployed, Mohammed Ali Yusif, alias Slim (A1), to a total of eight years imprisonment for stealing.
The court, presided over by Mr. Isaac Oheneba Kuffour, sentenced Ali to four years on conspiracy to commit a crime – stealing, and others.
His Honour Oheneba ordered that the counts should run concurrently, hence Ali would be incarcerated for four years.
Other persons – Daniel Anafo, 21 and unemployed, and Tanko Mohamed, 35 and a trader, put before the court with the convict pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to steal and dishonestly receiving. The trial of the others has been adjourned to September 19, 2023.
BRIEF FACTS
The court was told by Chief Inspector John Gohoho that the complainant, Annabelle Augustina Calvert, is a fashion designer and a resident of East Legon in Accra.
He added that the accused persons live at Achimota Railways, while the convict was staying at Achimota Kingsby.
The Chief Inspector indicated that on March 4, 2023, at about 10.30pm, the Accra Regional Police Intelligence Directorate was informed that a young man at Achimota Charcoal Station was in possession of a digital voice recorder suspected to have been stolen, and was offering it for sale.
A team of intelligence officers was dispatched to the said location where Al was, and he was duly arrested together with the Olympus digital voice recorder.
Based on this, the team proceeded to Achimota Railways and arrested Tanko Mohamed and a Nikon digital Camera was retrieved from him.
During investigation, Daniel admitted to have stolen the said digital voice recorder together with the digital camera and other valuable items from a white man’s residence.
He mentioned Mohammed Ali Yusif, alias Slim, as his accomplice and led the police to the residence of the complainant where he demonstrated how he and the convict gained ingress into the residence and stole the items. The convict was finally arrested after months of being at large.
He said investigation revealed that on February 19, 2023, at about 10.00pm, Daniel and the convict, who are good friends, met at their usual base at Achimota Railways and planned to go on a stealing operation.
Together they walked to Abofu, Achimota overhead, where they boarded a commercial vehicle to Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout near the Accra Shopping Mall.
They walked through the motorway and entered the East Legon community and finally got to the complainant’s residence at 12.00 midnight on February 20.
Daniel and Ali scaled the fence wall into the house and further scaled up onto the balcony on first floor at the back of the building and gained ingress into the building through the backdoor.
In one of the rooms, they stole one laptop computer valued GH¢3,000.00, one Nikon digital camera, GH¢4,000.00, two pieces of Kente cloth, GH¢5,800.00, one Samsung Galaxy S3 mini mobile phone, GH¢1,500.00, one Olympus digital voice recorder, GH¢3000.00 and two Kente cloth, GH¢2,000.00
They fled with their booty and sold them to Tanko and others. Tanko allegedly received the Nikon digital camera valued GH¢4,000.00,After investigation, the accused persons and the convict were put before court.
