Kumasi, Jan. 8, GNA - A Kumasi Circuit Court has pronounced a 17-year jail term on two men for gang raping a 13-year-old girl at Bremang, a suburb of Kumasi.

The convicts; Nana Ankomah and Kwame Amponsah, aged 18 and 22 were sentenced to seven and ten years in jail respectively after pleading guilty to the offence.

Prosecuting, Police Inspector Isaac Mensah Apenteng told the Court presided over by Mr Adjei Frimpong that, the convicts are both drivers' mates and very close friends.

He explained that, Kwame Amponsah arrived in Kumasi from Accra on December 28 last year for the Presidential run-off and spent the night with Nana Ankomah who asked the former to assist him to teach the victim a bitter lesson for unknown reasons.

At about 9pm the next day, the victim was returning home after attending nature's call and on reaching R/C Basic School, the two dragged her into one of the uncompleted buildings of the school and had sex with her after threatening her with a knife. The victim reported the incident to her mother when she got home and her mother assisted by her sons arrested the convicts and handed them over to the police. After investigation, they were charged and arraigned.