The Dansoman Circuit Court has remanded in police custody, three Electoral Commission (EC) workers and a student, accused of stealing laptops and Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits, belonging to the Commission.
Philip Tetteh, a Labourer, Benjamin Fienyi, a securityman, and Jospeh Blankson Adamadze, a database Administrator, have been jointly charged with conspiracy to steal and stealing.
Clifford Yeboah, a 23-year-old student, have been charged with dishonestly receiving the equipment.
All the accused have denied the various charges, when they appeared before the court, presided over by Halima Abdul El LawalBasit.
Chief Inspector Christopher Wonder, prosecuting, pleaded with the court to remand the accused because theywould interfere with investigations.
According to prosecution, the police were yet to retrieve the laptops, which contained crucial information.
The court, therefore, remanded the accused until April 29, 2024.
Chief Insp Wonder said that the complainants was the EC officials.
He said on March 9, this year, EC officials (Information Technology Department) commenced regular maintenance of BVR kits.
Chief Insp Wonder explained that each BVR kit had a laptop computer, scanner, printer, biometric device and a battery.
The court heard that during the maintenance, it was detected that five dell laptops, belonging to the EC had been stolen out of the set of kits.
Prosecution said a report was made to the National Security, resulting in the arrest of the accused.
Chief Insp Wonder said that three HP laptops of the EC were retrieved from Yeboah and a HP printer and three Biometric Verification Device (BVD) retrieved from Fienyi.
Prosecution told the court that Fienyi and Adamadze planned to steal some printers when the EC in March, 2023, engaged its casual workers and security men to remove materials from the commission’s warehouse at Ridge (EC old Head office) to a warehouses in Accra.
Chief Insp Wonder said investigations revealed that Philip Tetteh stole three HP laptops from the kit boxes and gave same to Yeboah to keep and repair.
In the case of Blankson, prosecution said he stole HP Printer from the kits and gave it to Fienyi.
Chief Insp Wonder said Fienyi also took three BVD printer chargers and took them home. —GNA
