A 36-year-old Nigerian national, Stanley Afaku, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for armed robbery at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi, Ghana.
Afaku was convicted by the Sekondi Circuit Court, presided over by Her Honour Naa Amberley Akowuah, after pleading guilty to the robbery charge.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court ordered that Afaku be deported by the Ghana Immigration Service after he completes his jail term.
Afaku’s accomplice, Samuel Nickson, also known as Egya Acquah, denied the robbery charge and was remanded in police custody. Nickson, who is already facing another robbery charge, is scheduled to return to court on June 24, 2025.
According to a press statement from Superintendent Olivia Awurabena Adiku, Head of the Public Affairs Unit in the Western Region, the robbery took place on February 23, 2025, when Afaku and Nickson attacked Nash Arthur, a security guard at the hospital, at gunpoint.
They tied him with his own shirt and stole his mobile phone before proceeding to the hospital’s Out-Patient Department (OPD) pharmacy, where they made off with a Flat-screen television.
Afaku was arrested on June 4, 2025, in the Esiama Bafana ghetto following intelligence gathering.
He confessed to the crime and named Nickson as his accomplice.
