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 helping the police with their investigations.

Father Jerry Ankutsitsia, the headmaster of the School, said that Tsitsiwu and Mane were chased by students and people from the town after the car was filled with bags of maize, rice, gari, and beans, as well as four pieces of big size tin tomatoes and two boxes of sardines.

He told the Ghana News Agency that the school ran out of some food items and was lucky to get a shipment from the Free SHS program’s buffer stock at the Mawuli School campus in Ho, which was brought to the store.

He said that the students noticed that part of the food shipment was being put into a car at around 8:00 p.m. on November 16. They told the headmaster, who told the school’s cadet corps to take charge.

He said that Mane was chased and followed by some motorcyclists who were scared off by the noise made by two men, thought to be CYO school students, in a getaway car. The two men clamped onto the top of the car and drove it to the suburb of Anfoega Gblenkor.

The headmaster said that with the help of the town’s people, the cab driver took the package to the police station, where the thieves were later caught and held.

Superintendent of Police Hilarious Avornyo, who is in charge of the Anfoega Police Station, confirmed the incident to the Ghana News Agency (GNA). He said that the people responsible were helping the police with their investigations and would be charged soon.

The North Dayi District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Edmund K. Attah, said that Tsitsiwu would have to face the full force of the law so that others would not do the same thing.

He asked the Ghana Education Service at the District and Regional levels to use their system of sanctions against the bad member, whose driver had admitted to stealing food more than once.

Mr. Attah promised to pay for the medical bills of the students who were hurt in the fight and taken to the Anfoega Roman Catholic Hospital.

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