Crime & Law
Court jailed Businessman three years for recruitment scam
Samuel Boakye, a 55-year-old businessman, was given three years in prison by an Accra Circuit Court for scamming three people into giving him money under the guise of helping them join different security agencies. Boakye pleaded guilty when he was charged with three counts of fraud by false pretenses. Boakye was found guilty and given…
Police arrests storekeeper, cabby driver for stealing food items from School store
Elias Tsitsiwu, who works as the storekeeper at the CYO Vocational Technical School in Sovie, and another man are in jail at the Anfoega Police Command. They are accused of stealing food from the school. Christian Mane, the accomplice who was driving the storekeeper’s Opel Caravan with the license plate number GR 6243 T, is…
Court remands commercial sex worker over human trafficking
Police are holding a commercial sex worker because a court in Accra thinks she was involved in human trafficking. Miriam Braim pleaded not guilty to both trying to sell people as slaves and marketing people as slaves. The next time we’ll see her is on November 29, 2022. Mary, the only name given to her…
Court sentences robber to two years imprisonment
Stephen Nkorkorbio was given two years of hard labor in prison by the Ashaiman Circuit court for planning to commit a crime and having a tool for illegal entry. Based on Nkorkorbio’s own plea of guilty, the court, which was led by Mr. Simon Gaga, gave him a sentence. On count one, he will get…
Court sentenced three robbers to five years imprisonment
Three thieves who worked together to rob a woman at Zenu in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality were each given five years in prison with hard labor by the Ashaiman Circuit Court. Bismark Appiah, who is 18 and works as a bus driver, Emmanuel Attakora, who is 22 and works as a mason, and Mubarik Sayiti, who…
Eight people on GHC100,000.00 bail each over illegal money changing
A court in Accra gave each of the eight people, including a woman, GHC100,000.00 bail with two sureties because they were running an illegal money exchange business. The judge, Ms. Adelaide Abui Keddy, told the court that the sureties had to be any property worth GHC100,000.00. She told Mohammed Ali, Barikisu Yakubu, Shaibu Suleman Issah,…
Farmer fined GHC120.00 for refusing to participate in communal labour
Kwasi Ben, a farmer, was fined GHC120 by a circuit court in Dormaa-Ahenkro, which is in the Dormaa Central Municipality in the Bono Region. He had refused to do communal work without a good reason. Ben, who is 38, pleaded guilty and gave a reason, but he was found guilty based on his own words….