A 32-year old apprentice hairdresser has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Nyinahin Magistrate's Court for stealing cocoa beans.
Yaa Bour pleaded guilty for stealing.
Her accomplice, Abena Kesewah, who was charged with abetment of crime, was ordered to pay a fine of GH ¢300. She would serve six months in jail if she fails to pay the money.
Police Chief Inspector Napoleon Asherow told the court presided over by Mr Augustine Essah that both Yaa and Abena lived at Nyinahin in the
Atwima-Mponua District.
On November 14, Kwaku Agyapong, a caretaker farmer, detected that part of the cocoa beans he had heaped on his farm for fermentation had been
stolen.
He, therefore, decided to conduct his own investigations and received information that the stolen beans had been stuffed in some sacks and were hidden by the road side.
He, therefore, laid ambush and as the two arrived in a taxi cab and began packing the filled sacks into the booth, he arrested and handed them
over to the police.
Meanwhile, two other women accused of stealing 14 bunches of plantain were granted GH¢200 bail each by the Court.
Afua Nsiah and Akua Aboagyewaa, both from Achiase near Wansamire, would re-appear on Friday, December 17.