EX-SOLDIER, OTHERS ON TRIAL FOR ROBBERY

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 The Asante Bekwai Circuit Court, presided over by Frederick Nawura, has remanded into Police custody a man said to be a dismissed soldier, Martin Atinga Awagra who is standing trial for four counts. 

His three suspected accomplices named only as Ernest, Aboagye and Yaw, are however on the run as the Police pursue them to also face the law. 

The case will be called again at the Circuit Court on the 8th of next  month.

Awagra is facing four counts of conspiracy to rob, robbery, possession of fire and ammunition without lawful authority and kidnapping. 

The Police have also retrieved from the suspects a G3 rifle, SMA rifle and 44 live ammunition being used as exhibits in the prosecution.

 The Prosecutor of the case, Detective Inspector Stephen Ofori explained that at about 4.30pm on the 11th of this month, Awagra and his suspected accomplices on the run, attacked three small scale miners who were returning from work at a location between Anyuruso and Anyaaso in the Bosome Freho district of Ashanti. 

At a gun point, Awagra and his suspected accomplices ceased from Amaglo Gallo, William Apiadu and Li-Shutin 30 kilograms of gold concentrate valued at 30 thousand Ghana Cedis. 

Detective Inspector Ofori noted that the complainants were returning to their base at Konongo in their Ford pickup vehicle when the suspects, wielding the weapons, crossed them along the road.

 One of the suspects took over the steering wheel of the vehicle, one sat at the bucket of the vehicle, with other complainants at a gun point. 

According to the Prosecutor, at Anyaaso, a funeral celebration in the township forced the driver to slow down.

 At that point, one of the complainants held the gun in custody of one of the suspects and pulled the handbrake. 

The resultant scuffle attracted the mourners who managed to apprehend Awagra and sent him to the Asiwa Police who in turn transferred him to Asante Bekwai where he was admitted at the municipal hospital for about a week to regain his health after which the prosecution began.

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