A 63-year-old trader, Adamu Alhassan, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Kwadaso Circuit Court in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region for stealing a tricycle and bread in Kumasi.
Alhassan pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing and was convicted on his own plea by the court presided over by Jephthah Appau.
Police Chief Inspector David Opoku Kwabi told the court that the complainant, Oduro Zakaria, a bread baker at Kumasi Ashtown, had loaded 114 loaves of bread valued at GH¢1,680 on his unregistered tricycle valued at GH¢35,000 in February 2024, and headed for the Adehyeman lorry station.
When the tricycle developed a fault, the convict introduced himself as a station Master and offered to help push it to the Kejetia MTN roundabout.
According to the prosecution, the complainant left the tricycle in the care of the convict while he went to look for a mechanic, but on his return an hour later, both the tricycle and the convict had vanished. Zakaria later discovered at the lorry station that Alhassan was neither a station Master nor a worker.
On August 28 this year, a witness spotted the convict at the station and called the complainant, leading to his arrest and subsequent handover to the Ashanti Regional Anti-Armed Robbery Unit (AARU) of the Ghana Police Service.
The prosecution said Alhassan, in his caution statement, admitted stealing the tricycle and the bread, revealing that he sold the vehicle to a scrap dealer at Bremang for GH¢700 and shared the bread with passers-by.
After investigations, he was charged with stealing and brought before the court, where he was convicted and sentenced to serve five years in prison.
