A 43-year-old businessman Kofi Sarkodie faces an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly snatching a car from a driver at gunpoint at Asakore Mampong in the Ashanti Region.
Sarkodie is said to have carried out the nefarious act with three others now at large.
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According to police, the vehicle allegedly taken away by Sakordie and his accomplices belonged to Madam Joycelyn Tetteh, Member of Parliament for North Dayi in the Volta Region.
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Charged with conspiracy and robbery, Sarkodie pleaded not guilty, thereafter the court presided over by Mrs. Rita Abrokwah Doko admitted him to bail in the sum of GH¢50,000.00 with three sureties.
He is to reappear on January 31, 2020.
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Inspector Boafo said a witness, Anansu Dickson was a driver of a rental company at Spintex.
In the first quarter of 2019, Madam Tetteh gave out her Toyota Land Cruiser Prado with registration number GW 6663-17 to Dickson for rentals.
The prosecution said, on July 23, last year, a client called with phone number 0242634481 and booked
for the vehicle at a cost of GH¢700.00 to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region for lectures but it was robbed at gunpoint allegedly by the suspect.
Source: citinewsroom
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