From Emmanuel Modey, Ho
A HO High Court, presided over by Justice Kofi Essel-Mensah has sentenced two persons, Benjamin Deble alias Haruna Yakubu and Raymond Agbeve alias Ahiane to death by hanging for murdering a taxi driver at Takuve in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
The two, Deble and Agbeve, who pleaded not guilty on three counts of conspiracy, robbery and murder were found guilty by a five-member jury for murdering Shalif Abu, a taxi cab driver.
Presenting the facts of the case, a State Attorney, Mr Kwaku Mensah Akude, said on July 10, 2000, the convicts hired Abu, the murdered driver of an Opel taxi with registration number GW 3464 Q, from the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout in Accra to convey some building materials to Takuve, near Ziope , the hometown of Agbeve.
After dropping the items, Mr Akude said, Deble and Agbeve asked Abu to drive them to Aflao for a business transaction and on the way, they requested the driver to stop for them to attend to call of nature.
He said, as soon as Abu stopped, Agbeve fired a pistol at him but the bullet missed him narrowly, resulting in a fierce struggle.
During the struggle, the State Attorney said, Deble took a hammer lying in the car and hit Abu on the head resulting in his instant death in cold blood.
He said, Agbeve then rushed to Takuve and returned with a pickaxe and a shovel with which they dug a trench in a nearby okro farm and buried the deceased. After their heinous act, the two then pushed the vehicle to the house of Agbeve and left for Aflao.
Unknown to them, Akude said, a school boy had seen them in the act and narrated it to his mother who alerted one, Kofi Attah, the father of Agbeve, who is now at large.
He said, sensing danger, Attah chased his son, Agbeve and Deble to Aflao to come and remove the taxi immediately from the village since the cat was out of the bag. They, therefore, responded and came back in the early hours of the following day at about 3.00am.
But just as they set off, they had a punctured tyre which was mended. Soon after that, another tyre also got burst, compelling Agbeve to travel to Aflao to buy new tyres, the prosecutor said.
This, he said, led to the information leaking to the police and their subsequent arrest and prosecution.
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