A 36-year-old notorious armed robber, Stanley Afaku, who attacked a security guard at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional hospital in Sekondi at gunpoint, has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.  

The Sekondi circuit court presided over by Her Honour Naa Amberley Akowuah, convicted Afaku, a Nigerian, after he pleaded guilty to the offence of robbery.  

During the ruling, the judge ordered that Afaku should be deported by the Ghana Immigration Service after completing his jail term.  

His accomplice, Samuel Nickson alias Egya Acquah, who is already facing another charge of robbery, denied the offence and was remanded into police custody to come before the court again on June 24, 2025. 

This was in a press statement signed by Superintendent of Police Olivia Awurabena Adiku, Head, Public Affairs Unit, Western Region, and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Takoradi.  

On February 23, 2025, Afaku and Nickson held Nash Arthur, a security guard at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional hospital in Sekondi at gun point, tied him with his own shirt and stole his mobile phone.  

The statement said the two then proceeded to the hospital’s Out-Patient Department (OPD) pharmacy, where they made away with a Flat-screen television set.  

Following intelligence, Afaku, was arrested in Esiama Bafana ghetto on June 4, 2025, admitted the offence, and mentioned Nickson as his accomplice, the statement added.