Cape Coast, May 9, GNA - A circuit court at Cape Coast, on Monday fined Kofi Acquah, alias Francis Arthur, a 29-year-old farmer one million cedis for stealing 42 bunches of oil-palm fruits belonging to the Twifo Small Holder Oil-Palm Plantation (TSOPP).
Acquah, pleaded guilty, and would go to jail for nine months in default.
Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Henry Acquah told the court that at about 0530 hours last Friday, security guards at TSOPP saw Acquah loading the fruits into a taxi, with registration number CR 2493C.
He said Acquah, who had by then loaded 20 bunches of the oil-palm fruits into the taxi, took to his heels on seeing the security guards, but the taxi driver, was arrested and handed over to the police. The prosecutor said relatives of the taxi driver, on hearing of his arrest, searched for and arrested Acquah at his hide-out at Kofi Saah, that same day, and handed him over to the police.
Akufo-Addo commissions Phase II of Kaleo solar power plant
NDC panics over Bawumia’s visit to Pope Francis
EC blasts Mahama over “false” claims on recruitment of Returning Officers
Lands Minister gives ultimatum to Future Global Resources to revamp Prestea/Bogo...
Wa Naa appeals to Akufo-Addo to audit state lands in Wa
Prof Opoku-Agyemang misunderstood Bawumia’s ‘driver mate’ analogy – Miracles Abo...
EU confident Ghana will not sign Anti-LGBTQI Bill
Suspend implementation of Planting for Food and Jobs for 2024 - Stakeholders
Tema West Municipal Assembly gets Ghana's First Female Aircraft Marshaller as ne...
Dumsor is affecting us double, release timetable – Disability Federation to ECG
