A herdsman jailed three years for stealing

A 20-year-old Fulani herdsman, Yakubu Jato, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour by the Dormaa Circuit Court for stealing.

Jato pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea.

Police Chief Inspector Bismarck Boye Lartey told the court presided over by Mr Alexander Osei Tutu, that the complainant was Mr. Iddrisu Barry, a security man at a filling station at Dormaa Ahenkro while the accused lived at Aboabo Nkwanta near Dormaa Ahenkro.

He said on August 22, the complainant returned from night duty to detect that thieves had broken into his bedroom and made away with a tape recorder, a bag containing seven ladies’ dress, four ladies’ scarves, three pairs of ladies footwear, eight pieces of wax print and a Beninois national passport belonging to one Madam Salamatu Karim, who had come to visit the complainant’s family in Ghana.

Chief Inspector Lartey said the Police were investigating the theft. He said the convict was seen offering some of the stolen items for sale and in an attempt to arrest him he took to his heels but was chased and arrested.

He said during interrogation, the convict led the Police to an uncompleted building near an old sawmill at Aboabo Nkwanta where all the stolen items except the eight pieces of wax print were retrieved.