Fowl thief sentenced to two years imprisonment

Kumawu, (Ash), July 7, GNA - The desire of a 46-year-old ex-convict to celebrate the 46th Republic Day anniversary with a fowl soup has landed him in jail.

Kwaku Duku was convicted on his own plea of guilty for stealing eight fowls valued at 200,000 cedis at Bodomase near Kumawu in the Sekyere East district and will serve two years in prison. Inspector Daniel Ntow of the Bodomase police station prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mr Frank Owusu-Afriyie, that, on Republic day at about 5am, Joshua Duah Agyeman, the complainant detected that, eight of his fowls had been stolen from his kitchen and started searching for them.

He said the complainant spotted a head of a fowl, drops of blood and a carcass of dead fowls covered with a shirt and concealed in a sack in a nearby bush.

According to the prosecutor, the complainant identified the shirt as belonging to the accused and therefore informed the unit committee of the town who examined the shirt and confirmed that it belonged to the accused person.

Inspector Ntow said the complainant reported the case to the Bodomase police who arrested the accused at about 0400 hours of the same day and upon interrogation, he admitted ownership of the shirt and stealing the fowls and was therefore charged with the offence.