The convict, Yaw Asante Agyekum, who was sentenced by an Accra High Court in December 2002, has already served 23 years of the 35-year sentence.

The convict, who did not have a lawyer at the time of his conviction, was charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

It is the case of his lawyer, George Bernard Shaw, that there was no evidence linking his client to the many robberies carried out by Ataa Ayi.

Addressing journalists after court proceedings on Monday, George Bernard Shaw further argued that the only link prosecutors could draw between Ataa Ayi and his client was the discovery of the notorious criminal’s phone numbers on the mobile phone of the mechanic.

This, he believes, was unfair, and he is rigorously pushing for the court to overturn the ruling.

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He talked about his past life, armed robbery operations and the techniques that he and his friends used in robbing people of their valuables.

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According to Ataa Ayi, he never robbed people in their homes but was well-endowed with bank robberies where he followed his victims after they have cashed out to rob them at gunpoint.

Undoubtedly, he was the most famous armed robber in Ghana and was arrested in February 2005 following a tip-off from his family member for a domestic violence issue.

The police found out later that he was the most wanted criminal in Ghana after his arrest.

The Greater Accra Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service at that time, ACP Kofi Boakye was said to have been directly involved in the arrest. 

“With the arrest of Ataa Ayi, a whole generation of armed robbers has been wiped out,” the Police told GNA. 

In the same year (2005), Ataa Ayi was sentenced to 160 years in prison with hard labour on the charges of robbery and conspiracy to rob by Supreme Court Judge, Justice Baffoe-Bonnie.

A few years after his sentence, Ataa Ayi found God.

He is now a devoted evangelist at the Ankaful Maximum Security Prisons in Cape Coast, Central region where he is serving his sentence.