Justice Ezekie: 24-year-old Unemployed man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Stealing Plantain and Cassava

• Justice Ezekiel, a resident of Akwasiase, near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for stealing food stuff
• The 24-year-old unemployed man was caught in the act by the farm owner while he harvested and loaded the cassava and plantain in a sack
• He pleaded guilty to the crime when he was brought before the Tepa circuit court

A recent publication by Ghana News Agency (GNA) has reported that a 24-year-old Ghanaian man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after stealing Ghc50 worth of cassava and plantain.

According to the report, Justice Ezekiel stole the food stuff from a farm in Akwasiase, near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region.

Jonas Newlove Agyei, Police Chief Inspector told the court that the 24-year-old convict was arrested by the farm owner upon being caught harvesting the plantain and cassava and loading them into a sack.

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Justice Ezekie was brought before the Tepa circuit court where he admitted the offense in his caution statement, GNA reported.

YEN.com.gh earlier reported that a 24-year-old Ghanaian lady has narrated how she was sent to jail for stealing Ghc5 to buy food to feed her three hungry children.

In the video sighted by YEN.com.gh on the official Facebook page of Crime Check TV GH, Akua Akyaa recounted how she landed in prison.

Narrating her story, she said she used to work at a chop bar and had a daily wage of Ghc5. With the Ghc5, she cared for her three little children.

Akyaa said getting money to buy food to eat and care for her children was difficult when the owner of the chop bar she used to work at asked her to stay home.

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Out of hunger, she stole Ghc5 from her neighbour to buy rice balls with groundnut soup to feed her children and herself. Her act did not go unnoticed, as the owner of the money found out about it and that led to an altercation.

This led to a fight which resulted in Akua Akyaa injuring her neighbour in an attempt to defend herself. She was later reported to the police and was brought before a judge.

Source: YEN.com.gh