Court convicts man for stealing

Akim Oda (E/R), May 13, GNA - Abdullah Dramani, a 22-year-old man, who circumcises young males as a profession was on Friday sentenced to two years imprisonment for stealing. Dramani was convicted on his own plea.

He was found guilty of stealing a quantity of fried fish and meat valued at seven hundred thousand cedis and a tape recorder. Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Ben Osei Kwadwo told an Akim Oda Court presided over by Mr Edward Kwame Bosompeng Apenkwah, a Circuit Court Judge, sitting as an additional Magistrate Court Judge that the complainant in the case operated a restaurant at Akim Oda Old town. He said on May 6 at about 2230 hours, the complainant, after the close of work retired to bed and left his items in his kiosk. At about 0700 hours the following day, the complainant went to the kiosk to start his normal work but found out that someone had broken into it and stolen the items.

An investigation led to the arrest of Dramani, who confessed to the police of stealing the items and was consequently arraigned. In another development, Kwame Ofosu, a 20-year-old trader, was sentenced by the court to 12 months imprisonment for assaulting a farmer at Akim Bontoduase.

The prosecution told the court that Ofosu, who lived in Accra visited the family at Akim Bontoduase in the Birim North District of the Eastern Region on May 6 and had information that the complainant had a confrontation with his father.

Ofosu without any provocation went to confront the complainant and threatened to hang him but was restrained.

The prosecuting said Ofosu, not satisfied, pursued the complainant and at 2200 hours hit him from behind with an implement on the left eye and escaped through the dark.

He was however chased, arrested and charged before the court.