Asamankese, Sept. 7, GNA – An Asamankese Circuit Court has fined Kwame Yeboah 25, a carpenter 500 Ghana cedis on his own plea for stealing cassava valued at 10 Ghana cedis. Police Chief Inspector Kate Ogyiri, prosecuting, told the court presided over by Mr Kofi Akrowiah that the complainant Kwasi Avornyo had an oil palm and cassava farm at the outskirts of Asamankese. He said on August 29, this year while Avornyo and his wife were working at the oil palm farm his wife decided to visit the cassava farm where she saw the accused harvesting some cassava into a sack. The prosecution said the woman went back to inform her husband and together they rushed to the cassava farm where the accused was harvesting their cassava and he was arrested and sent to Asamankese Police station. He said after investigations the accused was charged with the offence.
Source: GhanaWeb
