Frank Jerry Osei, who plies his trade in Kumasi is said to have defrauded Eva Gyansah to the tune of GH¢3,000 under the pretence of securing a position for her daughter in the Ghana Immigration Service.

He was sentenced by the Bekwai Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty to the charges of defrauding by false pretense and impersonation.

Facts

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Francis Osei Boateng, said the victim is a trader who sells roasted pork at Trede Junction near Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, while the accused person claims to be a businessman, resident at Bekwai.

In May 2017, the complainant together with her daughter who assists her in selling were going about their normal duties when Osei approached them and enquired from her daughter what she did for a living.

Ms Gyansah told Osei that her daughter had completed Senior High School (SHS) and was assisting her with the business to raise money to further her education.

Osei then introduced himself as the District Police Commander of Bekwai, and that as the head of the district, he had slots to enlist four persons into the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), and would give one slot to the complainant’s daughter.

He (Osei) later took the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) result slip, birth certificate and passport pictures of the complainant’s daughter, as well as GH¢3,000, which he termed as protocol processing fee.

He also made Gyansah’s daughter undergo a medical screening and gave her a list of items to be bought for training, as well as a date on which she was expected to report for training.

According to Mr Boateng, Ms Gyansah said after the time given them by Osei had elapsed and they had not heard from him, she attempted to reach him on his phone, but it was switched off and his whereabouts were unknown.

After several attempts to reach him were unsuccessful, she reported to the district police headquarters to enquire about the progress of her daughter’s enlistment into the GIS, only to be told that Osei was not the District Commander, neither was he a police officer.

Arrest

She then reported the matter to the police for investigation, after which Osei was apprehended months later.

During the interrogation, Osei admitted to the offences and confessed in the presence of independent witnesses.

He further stated in his caution statement that he had not attended any police training school whatsoever.

After investigations, he was charged and put before the court, presided over by Justice Frederick Arnold Wekem Kwesi Nawurah, who found him guilty on his own plea.

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Source: Graphic.com.gh

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He said the government must depoliticize its job creation policies in order to ensure that the country does not risk breeding criminals through the neglect of jobless youth.

[contextly_sidebar id=”Ica4NoenvQNJpdpK1YNcEq0FW0KuiIFC”]His comment was in reaction to the exponential increase in the number of applicants for this year’s recruitment exercise of the Ghana Immigration Service.

From about 40,000 applications in the previous year, over 84,000 persons applied for this year’s recruitment exercise.

Many have attributed the increase to the high levels of unemployment in the country.

Prof. Antwi Danso said the developments from the Immigration Service recruitment was “an indication that the unemployment situation in Ghana is very dire and serious.”

“Nobody should think of it in political terms. This is purely a socioeconomic problem which should be solved by the politician,” he said.

“Serious numbers like this in their youthful age between the ages of 20 and 35, unemployed become a hot magma from which all kinds of vices can be mined. If there is the chance for indulging in anything unconstitutional they will do it because they have to survive and that is how you look at it when security is concerned… For me it is a big security problem,” he added.

Prof. Antwi Danso, chided successive policy makers for giving too much emphasis to the political implications of job creation program rather than the socio-economic benefits.

He also called for the restructuring of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) into an apolitical organization that must focus on researching and bringing to the fore all that challenges within the country that must be addressed.

“Policymakers over the years have always looked at the political dividend which is very unfortunate. We need to look at the socioeconomic dividend. The National Development Planning Commission should be made an apolitical commission filled with technocrats who will do their research and know the deficits we have in the country and plan. So politicians will go to the NDPC before they draw their manifestos,” he said.

While arguing that the government must make unemployed youth the targets for its programs, including the flagship 1 District 1 Factor, Prof. Antwi Danso said “the government must think about how to absorb these youth into programs that yield results so that for those results people are paid.”

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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