House boy jailed four years for stealing

Kumasi (Ashanti), 6 Jan. '99 - A Kumasi Circuit Tribunal has sentenced an 18-year-old house boy, Yaw Bismark to four years' imprisonment in hard labour on his own plea of guilty to electrical gadgets systems and electrical gadgets worth about 11 million cedis, property of Mr Joseph Broni, a Kumasi businessman. Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Nicholas K. Darkwah, told the tribunal, chaired by Mr Joseph A. Abanga, that the accused was the house boy of Mr Broni's father at Bomso in Kumasi, where Mr Broni kept the gadgets in a room. Mr Darkwah said sometime last month, Mr Broni detected that some of the gadgets were missing and suspected the accused, who had then run away from the house and a report was made to Police. He said the Police had a tip-off that the accused had gone to Mim in the Brong Ahafo Region, from where he was arrested and during interrogation he admitted the offence and named some people whom he gave the items to but could not trace them. The Prosecutor said a video deck was retrieved from the accused.