Salifu pleaded not guilty to the charge and the Court presided over by Mr. Jojo Amoah Hagan admitted him to a bail of GH¢4000.00 with two sureties and adjourned the case to Friday, August 11, 2017.

Prosecuting, Police General Sergeant Ebenezer T.  Addo told the Court that at 19:20 hours on Saturday July 15, 2017, a Police officer saw the accused person behind the Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Headquarters building at Area Four carrying a load in a sack in a suspicious manner.

The complainant called the accused to disclose what was in the sack but the latter refused and when forced to comply, it was discovered that it was a 12 volt VDL heavy duty battery valued at GH¢935.00, a property of MMTL, P/Gen. Sgt. Addo said.

He said the accused could not give any tangible reason for possessing the item and was therefore arrested and sent to the Sunyani District Police Station where he was detained and released on Police enquiry bail on Sunday, July 16, 2017

Mr Addo said that the accused was then rearrested, charged with the offence and processed for Court.

Meanwhile the accused who was employed by the Company around 2005 in Kumasi has now been queried and interdicted, a source at the Sunyani Depot confirmed to the Ghana News Agency.

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Source: GNA

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Baba Alhassan, 18 and Edward Dixon, 20 were each fined GH¢600, were convicted on their own plea of guilty.

They would each serve two months imprisonment with hard labour in default.

However, the third accused Husseni Osman, an 18-year-old plumber who was serving a jail term on a similar offence was sentenced to eight months imprisonment with hard labour also on his own plea of guilty.

Prosecuting, Police Sergeant, Comfort Akorfa Banini, told the court presided over by Mrs Rita Amoayiwaa Edusa that the complainant, Mr Osei Akoto is an electrician and a resident of Ayioayiko in Cape Coast.

She said on Wednesday June 28, 2017 at about 0100 hours, the convicts were coming from a drinking bar at Tantri in the Cape Coast Metropolis.

The prosecution said on reaching the complainant’s shop at Ayikoayiko, they entered the shop using a duplicate key and stole seven car batteries valued at GH¢3,500.00 belonging to clients of the Akoto.

Mr Akoto reported the theft to the Kotokuraba Police where the convicts were arrested based on intelligence gathered by the Police.

Sergeant Banini said the convicts confessed their involvement in the crime during investigations and led Police to retrieve the stolen items.

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Source: GNA

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Gyamfi, 38, charged with stealing, has pleaded not guilty. He has been admitted to bail in the sum of GH 15,000 cedis with three sureties, one to be justified.

The accused person claims it was the late Nana Adu Gyamfi Kwamaning III, who asked him to transfer GH 6,000 cedis  and 5,000 cedis to one Sarah Sosu, now at large and himself respectively.

The accused further alleged that, Nana Kwamaning III, who died last year, subsequently came for the money after it was transferred.

Gyamfi is to reappear on January 19, 2017, before the court presided over by Ms Eva Bannerman Williams.

Prosecuting Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Agbemahia, said the complainant was Maxwell Caleb Nortey Newman, a banker with the Forensic Investigation Department of Barclays Bank Head office Accra.

Chief Inspector Agbemahia said the accused person was with Customer Life Circle Management, a department of the bank branch at Knusford, Accra.

On October 24 this year, the relatives of the customer known as Nana Adu Gyamfi Kwamaning III, went to the Oda branch of the bank and presented letters of Administration to enable the relations of the deceased access funds in the account of the deceased.

It was realized that even though the customer passed on last year, there had been transfer of GH 6,000 cedis and GH 5,000 respectively on June 2, this year and June 14, this year.

The matter, according to the prosecutor, was referred to the Forensic Unit of the bank for investigations, and it came to light that the accused person transferred the money to one Sarah Sosu, a customer of the bank’s branch at Airport on June 2.

Prosecution said Sarah withdrew GH 6,000 cedis on June 3, this year, while the accused used his ATM card to withdraw the GH 5,000 cedis.

Chief Inspector Agbemahia said the complainant after concluding his investigations reported the matter to the Fraud Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department.

During interrogation, Gyamfi denied the offense and said that it was the deceased who came to the bank on June 2, this year and June 14, this year and asked him to do the transfer for him (the accused) and Sarah.

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By: citifmonline.com with files from Ghana Police Service/Ghana

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