Two young men who conspired to steal diesel belonging to Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Ghana, have been sentenced to a total of eight years imprisonment by the Juaso Circuit Court.
Kwaku Kukyianu and Akwasi Kuma, both apprentice welders, would each serve four years.
They all pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit crime, unlawful entry, causing unlawful damage and stealing.
Issaka Mohammed, a taxi cab driver, standing trial with them was admitted to bail in the sum GH�8,000.00, while one other accomplice, identified as Kwadwo Ibrahim, is on the run.
Police Inspector Emmanuel Ofori told the court presided over by presided over by Mr Justice S.K. Sarpong Appiah that on June 15, the convicts drove to an MTN Cell site at Adomfe in a taxi cab to steal diesel used to fuel a standby generator.
They cut through the wire fence and destroyed the pipe connecting the fuel tank to the generator before siphoning the diesel into empty jerry-cans.
The prosecution said in the course of their operation, some members of the community neighbourhood watch committee burst on the scene, forcing them to flee but Mohammed, the driver of the taxi cab, was apprehended.
Police investigation led to the arrest of Kukyianu and Kuma at their hideouts at Konongo.