Jailbird gets another 10 years

A 31-year-old labourer, Kwabena Ayivor, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for siphoning fuel from a vehicle.
Ayivor had been previously jailed on two different occasions for committing the same offence.

He pleaded guilty.

The Prosecutor, Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah, told the court, presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo, that the complainant, Kwame Andzie, is a taxi driver and resident at Hill Top Junction at Tarkwa while Ayivor lives at Akyempim, also in Tarkwa.

According to the prosecutor, Andzie and his colleague taxi drivers, who have been parking their vehicles by the roadside at the Hill Top Junction for some time now, have always had cash, pen drive and other items stolen from their vehicles.

He said due to that, Andzie and the affected drivers resolved to monitor their vehicles to apprehend those behind the theft.

Detective Amponsah said on August 30, 2013 at about 1.30 a.m.  Andzie and one Kwadwo Asamoah saw Ayivor and his accomplice, Adu Kwasi (now at large), in front of one Alice Amoah’s store at the Hill Top Junction. They were trying to open it but they ran away when they sighted a vehicle approaching.

The prosecutor said Ayivor later came back and was arrested by Andzie and his friend.

He said when a search was conducted in the bag Ayivor was carrying, they found a spanner and knife, together with a hose which he had tied to his chest, and he  was handed over to the police.

Source: GNA/Ghana