An Accra High Court will on March 10, decide the fate of four persons facing trial for stealing computers belonging to the Electoral Commission (EC) at Superlock Technologies, Dzorwulu, in Accra.
The accused persons, who were security guards at Superlock, are Emmanuel Asina, Lawrence Osei Bonsu, Abraham Nartey and Musah Zakaria.
They are said to have conspired with the main architect, one Jacob Addor, aka Kaba – now serving a 10-year jail term for stealing 10 HP laptops and their chargers, a Toshiba laptop, 8 Nokia phones, 1 Samsung mobile phone, 2 flash drives, 2 Nokia phone chargers and an office key belonging to the EC.
When the case was called for hearing yesterday, the presiding Judge, Mrs. Naa Adorley Azu, fixed March 10 for judgement.
The facts of the case are that, on July 14, 2012 during patrols around Dzorwulu Presby Junction by a team from the Panther Unit of the Ghana Police Service, at about 11:30 am, arrested Addor, who was in possession of the aforementioned items.
According to the prosecution, during investigations, Addor, in his caution statement, confessed the offence and mentioned that he had a call from one Kofi, who also works with the EC, to meet him at Dzorwulu where the office of Superlock Technologies Limited is, and that he (Kofi) had planned with the security guards who were guarding the office, to steal the items.
The prosecution stated that Superlock Technologies was a company contracted by the EC to run a programme on its computers, whilst Addor is a labourer at the same company.
The prosecution averred that further investigations revealed that the four accused persons conspired to commit the offence since both suspects were security guards on duty at the office and were all present at the very main entrance where Addor and his accomplices passed to take the laptops away.
The facts continued that on 19 July 2012, an identification parade was conducted and Nartey was identified by Addor as the one who called him on his phone to meet him at Dzorwulu to steal the items.
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By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
