{"id":114097,"date":"2026-02-05T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114097"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:05:00","slug":"firewood-seller-jailed-for-stealing-rubber-lumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114097","title":{"rendered":"Firewood seller jailed\u00a0for\u00a0stealing\u00a0rubber lumps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tarkwa District Magistrate Court II has sentenced a 24-year-old firewood seller to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing rubber lumps valued at GH\u00a21,722.<\/p>\n

Aziz Fuseini, who\u00a0resided\u00a0in\u00a0Damang\u00a0in the Prestea Huni-Valley\u00a0Municipality,\u00a0pleaded guilty to stealing.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Isaac Osei Asare, the presiding judge, therefore, convicted\u00a0Fuseini\u00a0on his own plea.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecution, led by Police Sergeant Adwoa Yeboah, said the complainant, Mary Amoah,\u202fand her husband were into rubber plantation and food crop farming\u202fat\u00a0Nsuaem\u00a0near\u00a0Aboso.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said that on December 16, 2025, at about 12:00 noon, the complainant was heading back from her crop farm when she encountered\u202fFuseini loading her harvested rubber lumps\u202ffor sale into a tricycle.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sergeant Yeboah said Prince Ampofo, the rider and a witness in the\u00a0case\u00a0were\u00a0also standing by his tricycle near the rubber plantation.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said for fear of being attacked, the complainant after confronting\u00a0Fuseini, greeted and walked away, planned to reach the main road, and\u00a0raised\u00a0alarm, so people could help her arrest him.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to her,\u00a0Fuseini\u00a0sensed the complainant could cause trouble, ordered the rider to take off, and, along the way, the complainant pleaded to join them on the main road, all in an effort to have him apprehended.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said that when they arrived at the Aboso refuse dump, she alighted and raised an alarm.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fuseini\u00a0sped off, but Ampofo was picked up and handed over to the police along with the goods in the tricycle. The complainant also reported the matter to the police.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sergeant Yeboah informed the court that, while investigations were ongoing, it had been determined that the rider was not involved in the crime; he had only been hired by\u00a0Fuseini.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said Ampofo was later released on police enquiry bail to aid investigations.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said that on December 12, 2025, Ampofo took Fuseini to the police station while Fuseini was about to hire another rider for a job.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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