Kwame Boateng, 42 and a commercial driver, has been remanded into police custody for allegedly stealing a trotro vehicle.
He was said to have stolen the VW Sprinter bus with registration No. GB 6366-21, valued at GH¢200,000.00, and property of a Civil Servant, Pauline Dakorah.
Kwame was arrested and put before an Accra Circuit Court, presided over Afia Owusuaa Appiah, last Thursday.
The brief facts presented to the court by Chief Inspector Samuel Ahinbor indicated that Kwame was given the bus by a colleague, Felix Allotey, who was given the vehicle by the complainant, Pauline.
The initial instruction given to Allotey by Pauline was that he should operate within Accra and its environs, as well as make weekly sales of GH¢1,260.00.
But on August 5, 2022, Allotey, without the consent of the complainant, gave the vehicle to the accused as a spare driver, and further instructed that the accused should return the vehicle after close of work.
Regrettably, the former’s instruction fell on deaf ears, as the accused neither returned the vehicle, the sales, nor answered calls from Felix Allotey.
C/Insp Ahinbor narrated that a report was made to the police and the information was sent to all Police Stations to be on the lookout for the vehicle.
Fortunately, he said, on August 22, 2022, intelligence gathered led to the arrest of the accused from his hideout at Techiman/Tanoso, together with the vehicle.
He further added that the accused was then escorted to the Teshie Police Station where he admitted the offense, and “when the accused person was confronted with the sales between August 8 and 21, he could not account for it.”
After investigations, the accused was accordingly charged with stealing and pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The case has been adjourned to September 12, 2022.
