A 24-year-old private security man has been slapped with a 25-year jail term for armed robbery by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Eric Yeboah, who used to work with Jerroc Security Company, was sentenced last Friday by the court, presided over by Mr Adjei Frimpong. Yeboah pleaded not guilty but the court found him guilty and sentenced him accordingly. He was caught with a pump action gun after an armed robbery operation in the night of June 4, 2008. He had apparently sneaked out of his duty post at the Family Care Hospital at Mowire, near Kodie in the newly created Afigya-Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region, on the night of June 4 to engage in the robbery. He allegedly used an assault gun which had been assigned to him by the security company for the armed robbery operation. The facts of the case were that the complainant, Theresa Brefo, a trader who lived in the same room as her son at Mowire, was attacked by the convict. The court heard that about 12:45 a.m. on June 4, 2OO8, while the complainant and her son were asleep, they were awakened by a knock on their door. Yeboah, who was holding the assault gun, was said to have forced his way into the room and pointed the gun at the complainant and her son and ordered them to surrender all the money and mobile phones on them. Yeboah was said to have succeeded in robbing them of GH¢180.89 and two mobile phones. The complainant shouted for help after Yeboah had left and later reported the matter to the medical officer in charge of the Family Care Hospital that same night. The medical officer tried to look for the security man but he was nowhere to be found. He was later found standing in a bushy area behind the hospital where the two mobile phones he had stolen from the victims were also found. The GH¢ 180.89 was also found in a silver pan at another place behind the hospital. The medical officer then ordered Yeboah's arrest and later handed him over to the police at Kodie. Inspector Yusif Mohammed Tanko of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Unit said Yeboah was subsequently handed over to the Regional CID, and brought before court. Source: Daily Graphic