In the quiet of Accra’s High Court, businessman Emmanuel Amoah Quartey recounted the harrowing night his home turned into a scene of terror. With his wife bound to a toilet seat, Quartey faced the barrel of a gun wielded by his former security guard, now masked and unrecognizable. The court and jury listened intently as Quartey, the third Prosecution Witness, detailed his desperate escape from death’s grasp, sprinting through his home’s corridors and kitchen, the masked assailant in close pursuit.
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Outside, the night air was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Quartey, feeling the bullet’s shock wave like a brick against his skull, narrowly evaded the lethal intent of Pius Anundoabil Ayoma, the 22-year-old accused of attempted robbery. Clutching survival, Quartey’s fists met the gun’s barrel, and his voice rose in alarm, crying “armed robbers” as he fled. Each step was a calculated dance, zigzagging to avoid further shots, until at last, he reached the safety of a neighbor’s embrace, four houses away from the nightmare behind him.
