KINGSLEY AMANKWAH
V.
THE REPUBLIC

JUDGMENT 

DOTSE JSC:- 

PROLOGUE 

After reflecting on the sordid and traumatic events that culminated in the arrest,  successful prosecution of three young men aged 23, 21 and 22 years respectively as at  2009, and their subsequent conviction and sentence to 65 years each on charges of  conspiracy to commit crime namely robbery contrary to Sections 23 and 149 of the Criminal  and other Offences Act, 1960, Act 29 as amended by The Criminal Offences (Amendment) Act,  2003 Act 646, and robbery, contrary to section 149 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960,  Act 29 as amended by Criminal Offences (Amendment) Act 646, 2003, we deem it appropriate  to refer to the following statement. 

This statement itself was made by this court as its concluding remarks in its unanimous  judgment in the case of Frimpong alias Iboman v. The Republic [2012] 1 SCGLR 297, at  340 where we stated as follows:- 

“Before we conclude our judgment in this appeal, let us share with you the first stanza of  Rudya…