The Asamankese Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Abass Abubakari Adams has sentenced a 28 year old unemployed to 60 days imprisonment in hard labour for stealing a Royal Motorbike worth Ghs1,500, a property of Sharif Rasheed in Asuokaw.
Yakubu Dauda, the accused was convicted after he pleaded guilty to stealing.
The prosecuting officer, Inspector Joseph Boamah told the court that the complainant is a sprayer at Asuokaw near Asamankese while the accused person also resides in Asuokaw.
He said on December 2020, the complainant parked his Motorbike in his shop at Asuokaw Zongo but could not found the motorbike in the shop the next day he came to his shop.
The Prosecutor said on 22nd January 2021, the complainant spotted the missing motorbike in Pramkese at a motorbike spare parts shop and upon his interrogation, the spare part dealer mentioned Yakubu Dauda as the owner.
The complainant however rushed to Police in Pramkese and they invited Yakubu Dauda and upon investigation, he confirmed stealing the motorbike and was arrested and arraigned for court for prosecution.
In a related development, the court also sentenced a 42-year-old Businessman, Owusu John, to 60 days imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding by pretense.
The complainant, in this case, is a driver at Nyanoa and the accused person is a businessman from Kumasi.
According to the prosecution, on 9th September 2020 at about 6;30am, the complainant who was driving a commercial vehicle with his mate on board were transporting coconut seedlings from Nyanoa to Afloa but reaching Nsawam overpass, the accused person met the complainant and asked him to lead him to buy and transport 15,000pieces of coconut seedlings to Kumasi.
On 19/09/2020, the complainant and the accused person went to one Anthony Opamfo who sells coconut and bought 1,000 pieces of coconut seedlings from him but the accused demanded Ghs1,000.00 cash from the complainant to be added to his own and told him he will send the money as soon as he reaches Kumasi.
After loading the seedlings into a vehicle charted by the accused, Owusu John decided to attend a nature call but requested to go to a nearby bush because he is not okay with a public toilet.
Owusu John, after entering the bush within the coconut seedlings producer’s house jumped his fence wall and decided to run away but he was chased and handed over to the police.
Further investigations revealed that the accused has been involved in such a pretense act for some time now and he was later arraigned to court for prosecution.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com