Court remands WO1 Dedoo for robbery
A warrant Officer Class One (WO1) of the Ghana Armed Forces has been remanded in police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly engaging in robbery.
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WO1 Victor Dedoo pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to rob and robbery and is to reappear before the court, presided over by Mr Francis Obiri, on April 14, 2014.
Facts of case
Prosecuting, Chief Superintendent E. Afful said the complainant, Victor Kweku Frimpong, was in druggist resident at Dansoman.
He said Dedoo was a airman stationed at the Air Force Base, Burma Camp in Accra.
In early February 2014, one Obina expressed interest in buying an active ingredient used in the manufacture of a painkiller from a witness in the case.
The witness also informed the complainant, who happened to be his friend.
At 11:30 a.m. on February 18, 2014, the complainant and the witness contacted Obina to tell him that they had received the product.
Obina went to the complainant's drug store at Dansoman to inspect the product and accepted to buy it.
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They bargained and agreed on GH¢50,000, after which Obina decided to go to Tudu to bring the money for the payment.
Chief Supt Afful said a couple of minutes after his departure from the store, Obina brought in eight men, two in military uniform and one armed with a pistol.
They beat up the complainant and a witness and took away a drum containing the product.
A day after the incident, the complainant made a report to the police.
On March 25, 2014, upon intelligence, the suspect was arrested and he was identified by the complainant as the military man who had been armed with a pistol.
At an identification parade on March 27, 2014, a witness, Ralph Manu, also identified the suspect as one of the soldiers who had beaten them up and driven him and the complainant in their vehicle, with registration number GR 4764 Z, through some parts of Accra before finally dumping them at the Accra Academy area. near kaneshie first light.
Further investigations are being conducted to arrest the other suspects.