Labourer jailed for stealing GH¢12,000

A 29-year-old labourer has been sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment by the Kwadaso Circuit Court in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region for stealing GH¢12,000 at Kumasi-Santasi.

The labourer, Emmanuel Frimpong, also known as Ebo Noah, pleaded guilty to the charge and was convicted on his own plea.

Police Chief Inspector David Opoku Kwabi, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mr Jephthah Appau, that the complainant, Blackjew Appiah, was a sales officer with a Unilever products distribution company at Santasi, where Frimpong was employed as a labourer.

He said that on January 7, 2026, the complainant went to a mobile money vendor, Leticia Gyamfi, now a witness in the case, to withdraw GH¢12,000 from his mobile money wallet.

After a successful cash-out process, the vendor was unable to raise the full amount and requested a few minutes to mobilise the cash, to which the complainant agreed.

A report was subsequently made to the police at Suntreso, leading to the arrest of the convict at Wromanso.

After investigations, he was charged and put before the court, which sentenced him accordingly.

Diversion

The prosecutor said that when the vendor later raised the full amount, she noticed the convict, who had also come to deposit money into his wallet.

She subsequently contacted the complainant by phone and informed him that she intended to hand the money over to the convict to deliver to him at the office, an arrangement to which the complainant agreed.

The prosecution said that after receiving the money, the convict diverted from the agreed plan and travelled straight to a hotel in Cape Coast in the Central Region, where he spent four days with commercial sex workers.

It said the convict later travelled to Wromanso in the Amansie East District of the Ashanti Region.