Enock Kwasi Asare, a popular porter who broke into a school office and stole a quantity of textbooks and a wall clock has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit court.
He pleaded guilty. Police Inspector Osei Owusu, prosecuting said following the discovery of theft of the items, Asare was arrested by school children in Accra when he offered to sell some of the books to them.
The prosecutor said on Monday, November 25, this year, when the Headteacher of the Kwahyia Presbyterian Primary School got to school at about 7.40 a.m. he saw that some opinion leaders of the village had gathered in front of the school, looking sad and greeted with the news that someone had entered his office and ransacked the place.
The Headteacher entered the office and noticed that two trunk boxes as well as two cupboards containing the textbooks had been broken into and quite a number of books stolen. He further discovered that the school’s wall clock was also missing.
On November 26, the following day, some school children in Accra found Asare offering textbooks for sale near the Nima overhead bridge. They therefore decided to buy some of the books but to their surprise, they noted that the books bore the inscription of the Kwahia School.
The children then arrested and sent him to the Nima Police Station together with the books. A number of the books were subsequently recovered from him.
