Accra Dec 27, - A 20 year old
Nigerian barber who allegedly threatened two German Volunteers with a gun and a
knife in their rooms at Asylum Down, has appeared before an Accra Circuit
Court.
John Adeyemi aka Shinzy Amani,
has been charged with Robbery, threat of death and unlawful entry.
He pleaded not guilty to the
charges and the court presided over by Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin Doku remanded
Adeyemi into Police custody to reappear on January 10.
Prosecuting Chief Inspector Isaac
Dosoo said the complainants, Feher Franziska and Antonia Suemnich are Germans
residing at Asylum Down, Accra. They are also members of Rainbow Garden
Village, a German based Non-governmental organization which teaches children at
Nima.
Prosecution said Adeyemi resides
at Labadi at Accra.
The prosecution said accused is
in love with a Swiss national in Ghana who teaches at the German-Swiss school
on the Ring road. Accused therefore got to know the complainants through his
girlfriend.
Prosecution said the accused for
some time had been trailing the complainants from school to their residence.
On December 19, this year,
Prosecution said at about 4:00pm whiles the complainants were in their
apartment the accused person sneaked into the house thinking there was nobody
around and went into the complainants’ room.
Complainants who were in and half
naked asked him to get out of the room but he declined and in their attempt to
push him out of the room and seek assistance, Adeyemi pulled out a knife and
displayed a pistol from his bag threatening to stab anyone of them if they dare
create a scene.
Prosecution said accused armed
with the knife ordered the complainants to sit on a bed and surrender their
Samsung galaxy S8 and I phone 8 mobile phones and accessories and bolted.
The prosecution said accused who
had the complainants’ social media and parents contacts sent messages to the
complainants’ parents to immediately book flights for their wards o leave the
country or else he would kill them.
Prosecution said in the text
messages accused person further indicated to the complainants’ parents that
they were lucky when he spared them their lives and that their prompt
evacuation from Ghana would be in their own interest.
According to prosecution a report
was made to the Police and accused was arrested at his hideout by the Nima
Divisional Police.
Prosecution said when Adeyemi was
picked up, a stainless knife and a plastic toy pistol was found in his
possession whiles the complainants’ mobile phones were also retrieved.
During interrogation the accused
person admitted the offence.
GNA
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