An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 29-year-old trader, Mohammed Buzu, to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing a staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dr Oral William, and one other person.
The court sentenced Buzu to 15 years imprisonment on the charge of robbery and five years on the charge of causing harm.
This was after the Court had found him guilty on those charges and sentenced him accordingly.
The sentences are to run consecutively.
Buzu, after the robbery on January 18, slashed Dr William s left hand with a machete.
Two other accomplices; Kenneth Antwi and Baffour Adjei Gyimah, were, however, discharged by the Court during the course of the trial.
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Buzu was arrested in November, 2017, and granted bail after he made first appearance in court.
He was granted bail and asked to report to the investigator once a week.
However, the investigator granted the accused a two-week permission to visit his uncle in the Volta Region, but hestopped attending court proceedings for two years, until he was arrested in April.
When the case was called on Wednesday, Chief Inspector Gulliver Tenkorang told the court presided by AfiaOwusuaAppiah that the accused “vanished into thin air when he was granted bail two years ago.”