{"id":93704,"date":"2025-09-11T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=93704"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:38:00","slug":"trader-gets-5-years-jail-term-for-stealing-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=93704","title":{"rendered":"Trader gets 5 years jail term for stealing bread\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 63-year-old trader has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Kwadaso circuit court in the Kwadaso Municipality in the Ashanti region for stealing a tricycle and bread in Kumasi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adamu Alhassan pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing and was convicted on his own plea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Presenting the facts of the case to the court presided over by Jephthah Appau, Police Chief Inspector David Opoku Kwabi said the complainant, Oduro Zakaria, was a bread baker and resident of Kumasi Ashtown, while Adamu resided at Ahwiaa in the Afigya Kwabere East Municipality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said, in February 2024, the complainant loaded 114 loaves of bread valued at GH\u00a21,680 on his unregistered tricycle, valued at GH\u00a235,000, to his customers at the Adehyeman lorry station in Kumasi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecution said the tricycle developed a fault, and Adamu introduced himself as the station Master and offered to help push it to a safer place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They both pushed it to the Kejetia MTN roundabout, and the complainant left it in the care of the convict to look for a mechanic to fix the fault.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An hour later, the complainant returned with a mechanic, but both the vehicle and the convict were nowhere to be found, so he rushed to the lorry station only to realise that Adamu was neither a worker nor a station Master.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecution said, on August 28, this year, a witness in the case spotted the convict at the station, called the complainant, and he was arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was handed over to the Ashanti Regional Anti-Armed Robbery Unit (AARU) of the Ghana Police Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his caution statement, the convict admitted stealing the vehicle and the bread.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He, however, told the police that he sold the tricycle to a scrub dealer at Bremang for GH\u00a2700 and shared the bread with passers-by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After further investigations, he was charged and brought before the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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