Shop Attendant arraigned for stealing

Rita Amenyo, a shop attendant, was on Monday granted the bail of GH? 8,000.00 with two sureties, one to be a public servant, by an Accra Circuit Court, for falsification of account and stealing.

Rita who was said to have falsified a company account by failing to enter full and true particulars of sales which she was bound to enter and stole an amount of GH? 6,252.00 belonging to Metro Clean Laundry Services, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

She is to reappear before the court presided over by Mr Francis Obiri on October 15.

Presenting the facts of the case, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ernest Acheampong told the court that the complainant is the Supervisor of Metro Clean Laundry Services, Dzorwulu, while the accused, until the case was a shop attendant of the company.

He said the company has a branch at Spintex Road. In November 2013, the accused was posted to the Spintex Road branch as a shop assistant.

He said on August 13, a witness in the case alerted the company to check the transactions of Rita. Based on the information, transactions carried out by the accused person between November 2013 and August 2014 was scrutinised by the complainant.

According to the prosecution, the company detected that Rita had embezzled GH? 6,252.00, and when questioned by the complainant of the whereabouts of the money, she could not give any explanation.

DSP Acheampong said the complainant then made a complaint to the police, and Rita was arrested.

He said during investigations, it came to light that, the accused person massaged figures of payments made to her by clients and also failed to make full and true entries of those clients in the company’s cash sales report.

The prosecution said, Rita admitted the offence in her investigation caution statement and mentioned that she used GH? 1,200.00 out of the money to rent an apartment at Nungua.

He said she also told the police that she also used part of the money to buy a mattress, a gas cylinder, a burner and an iron.