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AKPEENA
V.
THE REPUBLIC

(2020) JELR 91984 (CA)

Court of Appeal 13 Feb 2020 Ghana
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- Philip Akpeena Assibit and Abuga Pele were convicted by the Financial Division of the High Court Accra for defrauding by false pretences and dishonestly causing loss to public property in relation to the Ghana Youth Employment Programme (

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Suit Number:CIVIL APPEAL NO. H2/23/2018
Judges:ADJEI, J.A ACKAH-YENSU,J.A ,TANKO AMADU J.A
Counsel:EBENEZER AHIATOR FOR APPELLANT EVELYN D. KEELSON (CSA) FOR RESPONDENT

   J U D G E M E N T

ADJEI, J.A:

The Appellant herein and one Abuga Pele were tried and convicted by the Financial Division of the High Court Accra and were sentenced to a number of years. The appeal before us is against both conviction and sentence imposed on the Appellant herein. The prosecution preferred eleven counts of offence against the Appellant herein Philip Akpeena Assibit and was convicted of all of them. The Appellant has appealed against his conviction and sentence on all the eleven counts. Counts one, two, three, four, five and seven were on  defrauding by false pretences contrary to section 131(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). Another five counts of offences; namely counts ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen were on Dishonestly Causing Loss to Public Property contrary to section 2(1) of the Public Property Protection Act 1977, (SMCD 140). Count fifteen was on Wilfully Causing Financial Loss to the State contrary to section 179 (3) (a) of the Criminal…

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