Court jails a fake student

The TDC Magistrate's Court at the week-end sentenced, a 21 year old man who claimed to be a second year student of the Labone Secondary School, Accra to six months imprisonment for defrauding a taxi driver for 150,000 cedis.

Divine Bonney, who pleaded guilty, said he was a second year science student, and mentioned one Mr Badgi as the headmaster of Labone Secondary School.

This prompted Mrs Florence Ninepence, who presided over the court to request a court clerk to phone the school to find out the name of the headmaster and whether a second year student by the name Bonney is in the school because she sympathised with a student and wanted him to be counselled.

The Court Clerk came back with the answer that the Headmistress of the school is Mrs Aggrey Mensah, who was not available at the time he called, however, the Assistant Headmaster, said there was no student by that name in the school in any of the classes.

Chief Inspector Comfort Agbagba told the court that on May 27,2003, at 7.30 am, Bonney, who stays at Taifa, Accra, visited Saani Shaibu at Ashaiman, and was asked by his the friend to accompany him to Kanda, Accra to visit his sister.

She said Shaibu who is at large hired a taxi with registration number GT 5924 D and was charged 150,000 cedis by the driver from Ashaiman to Kanda and back.

When they returned and got to Ashaiman Government School, Shaibu got down to buy some food, and never came back, therefore, the driver escorted Bonney to the police station and made a report.