Two people found guilty by an Adentan Circuit Court of theft of electronic devices valued GH¢298,900 in Okponglo, Accra, sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Businessman James Ugochukwu Mwobi, 33, was sentenced 12 years for counts including illegal damage, theft, and illegal access.
Solomon Otis, 36-year-old friend, was jailed five years for dishonesty in accepting stolen goods and conspiratorial crime.
The two accused individuals admitted guilt on the allegations.
Convenced under Sedinam Awo Kwadam, the court found them guilty on their own pleas.
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Still at large is an accomplice called Awudu Mamudu, often known as Focus.
Frederick Sackey, the complainant, is a businessman, the prosecution—led by Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo—told the court.
Mwobi and Otis, chief inspector lanyo claimed, are business partners operating at Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
Sackey visited his Okponglo laptop, mobile phone, tablet, and accessory shop on September 26, 2024.
The prosecution said Sackey found his upstairs storage had been broken after the burglars cut and destroyed the burglar-proof bars on the window.
Valued at GHC 366,200, they snatched 91 different computers and 51 tablets and fled by the window.
The prosecution said that one of the pilfers—identified by serial number GPSZ20240—was seen on exhibit at a Kwame Nkrumah Interchange exhibition on September 29, 2024.
The tablet was later recovered when Stephen Akwaboah, the owner of the showcase, who is a witness in the case, was arrested on September 30, 2024.
The prosecution told the court that one Charles Chubike Eze, also a phone vendor, Stephen Akwaboah found later on arrest.
Eze said Otis sold him more goods and the pilfered tablet.
Otis was then arrested and revealed that he had bought two of the tablets from an unidentified person whose whereabouts he could not trace.
The prosecution told the court that police had obtained information suggesting two computers matching the complainant’s stolen goods had been found at Tiptoe Lane, Circle.
Police officers were sent to the location and found one Chukuemeka Itiri, a witness in the matter.
According to the prosecution, Itiri showed Mwobi the computers he had meant for sale.
Then he led the police to Plus One Lodge, where Mwobi was detained.
Later looking through Mwobi’s room turned up two tablets and a laptop, all of which belonged to the complainant.
According to the prosecution, Mwobi broke into Sackey’s Okponglo storage on September 26, 2024.
He entered the room, broke the metal window bars with a pair of pliers, and pilfers 51 tablets and 91 computers.
According to the prosecution, Mwobi told Otis and Mamudu he intended to get rid of the pilfers the same day.
Otis and Mamudu visited Mwobi in his Plus One Lodge room on September 26, 2024, where they obtained 22 computers and 21 “Oteeto” tablets.
Otis paid Mwobi GH¢1,000 initially, according to the prosecution, before they fled with the pilfers.
The prosecution said Mwobi confessed to the crime, while Otis acknowledged to selling 19 of the tablets to one Victoria Osei Praku, a court witness, for GH¢250 each.
He convinced her (Praku) that his brother from Dubai had brought in the pills.
The prosecution claimed to have recovered nineteen tablets.
Mamudu reportedly went into hiding after learning about the issue.
Mwobi led the police to Sackey’s store on October 4, 2024, verifying it as the site from where he had stolen the computers and tablets.
According to the prosecution, three computers and twenty-two tablets had been found, and Mamudu continues to be sought for.
