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Farm labourer steals manager’s mobile phone

‘You people have been roaming about complaining about joblessness in the country, yet when you are offered a job you turn round to steal your employer’s properties. Don’t you know that by so doing you are collapsing your employer’s business and aggravating your unemployment situation?”
Mr K. B. Frimpong, the Presiding Magistrate of the Agona Swedru District Court, made these comments when he imposed a GH¢360 fine on Francis Sakpe last Friday for stealing.

Sakpe, a labourer of Exona Farms Limited at Agona Asafo, reportedly stole a mobile phone worth GH¢45 belonging to his farm Manager, Mr Zakari Alhassan.

The court convicted him on his own plea of guilty and sentenced him to the fine of 30 penalty units. He will spend three months in jail if he defaults the fine.

Sergeant Maxwell Boadu, the prosecutor, said Mr Alhassan is the manager of Exona Farms Limited whereas Sakpe is a labourer at the same farm. He resides at Awutu Bawjiase.

He said at 9 a.m. on July 22, 2013, Sakpe and his colleagues reported for work and they were assigned to their various working locations.

According to the prosecutor, no sooner had the manager dispatched the workers than he detected that his mobile phone was nowhere to be found.

Sergeant Boadu said Mr Alhassan used another phone to call his phone but there was no response.

The prosecutor said Mr Alhassan further informed the workers about the missing phone and pleaded with the one keeping it to return it.

Sergeant Boadu said at the close of work at 4:30 p.m. the same day, Mr Alhassan conducted a search on the workers and found the missing phone in Sakpe’s bag.

Sakpe was consequently handed over to the police.

By Ekow Yamoah/The Mirror/Ghana

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