Crime

Scrap dealer jailed 2 months for theft at GAF premises

A scrap dealer, who stole a quantity of iron rods at the premises of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), was sentenced to two months imprisonment in hard labour by the Accra Circuit Court.

Wisdom Adjovu, 34, admitted the offence in addition to dam­aging the GAF concrete slab.

Police Inspector Wisdom Alorwu told the court presided over by Mrs Susanna Eduful that Lance Corporal Prince Ache­ampong, the complainant, was an investigator with the Ghana Military Police, Burma Camp.

He said Adjovu was a scrap dealer and lived at La Old Court area.

Insp Alorwu told the court that the GAF have some apart­ments at Labadi Villas, where witnesses in this case worked as sanitary men.

The prosecution said on Au­gust 16, 2023, the sanitary men whilst working at the sewage dump site, spotted Adjovu with a hammer breaking concrete slabs.

Insp Alorwu said that a wit­ness grabbed the convict who had already concealed four iron rods in a sack.

The prosecution said the witness with the assistance of a colleague empowered Adjovu, and invited the Military Police to arrest Adjovu and taken to the La Police.

Prosecution said the Adjovu during interrogation admitted the offence.

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