Rockson Kofi, unemployed, who stole an electric generator valued at GHC 2,500 has been jailed for three years, by the Akim Swedru Circuit Court in the Birim South District.
Kofi was put into jail on his own plea of guilty to unlawful entry and stealing.
He will serve one year prison term on count one and a three year prison term on count two, in hard labour. The sentences will run concurrently.
Police Chief Inspector Kingsley Kwaku Antwi told the court presided over by Mr Yaw Atta Sampong that Mr Alex Kwadwo Asiedu, the complainant, is the senior security officer at the Akim Oda Sawmills Company Limited, while Kofi lives at Akim Oda in the Birim Central Municipality.
The prosecutor stated that of late, the company had been detecting theft from its yard and that on September 3, last year, while Mr Asiedu and other security officers were at post they saw Kofi carrying something in a sack and running away.
Chief Inspector Antwi said the security officers managed to arrest the convict and handed him over to the police and that when the sack was opened, the company?s electric generator valued at GHC2,500 was found. GNA
