Bekwai Court jails cobbler 15 years for robbery

The court convicted Opoku on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and robbery The Bekwai Circuit Court has sentenced a 26-year-old cobbler, Thomas Opoku, popularly known as Akwasi Dekye, to 15 years' imprisonment for robbing a nursing student at gunpoint at Kokofu Bedoma in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region.

According to a report by on August 7, 2026, the prosecution told the court that the robbery occurred on June 12, 2026, at about 12:15 a.

The court convicted Opoku on Thursday, August 6, 2026, on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and robbery, contrary to Sections 23(1) and 149 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).