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Farmer jailed18 months for stealing plantain

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  • Akamai 10 years ago

    And these politicians still millions with impunity and they still wAlk the streets!

  • william 10 years ago

    cAN'T THE GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION BE AN AGENT OF CHANGE WITH THE GHANA LAWE REFORM COMMISSION? 18MONTHS FOR 100 CEDIS THEFT? Why can't such petty stealing be handled by traditional chiefs? Don't the courts have huge backlogs?

  • OSABERIMA 10 years ago

    This case is ridiculous, should have been sent to a local chief to settle it.

  • DHURUWA 10 years ago

    well said, people get nothing for rape,sodomy,and even cocain trafficing.

  • Koby 10 years ago

    Why sentence him to 18 months in jail for stealing product valued 100.00 cedi's? Why Ghana????.. Feeding him at the jail will cost more than that.. please fine him and let him go...

  • Village Food 10 years ago

    Koby i agree with u but judges in GH are soo corrupt that when they hear such cases involving peanut money they get angry because they know the peanuts they can't have their share.If some one steals $20,000.00 he will be free ...
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  • ??? 10 years ago

    THEY ARE TOO SMART THAN WHAT YOU THINK.

  • Akwetey Amarh 10 years ago

    The cats are not enough for these trokosis' living among Ghanaians. They are now stealing plantain. Lazy-violent trokosis, who want everythinh free. Jail this trokosi for thousand years. No mercy for this trokosi ayibwe.

  • TSWE BA 10 years ago

    DA MOST STUPIDEST COUNTRY LEADERS IN DA WORLD..

  • BOY90 UK 10 years ago

    Foster Nii Ayi Smith stole GHS 14,000.00 is said to have forged the signatures of Prophet Stephen Mensah, Founder and General Overseer of Power Miracle International Church at Kaadjanor in Accra and stole monies from the vari ...
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  • Kwame Angel 10 years ago

    I wonder how many bunches of plantains GHC50 million can buy. This world is not fair.

  • ndc 10 years ago

    people are chopping money and walk free in ghana

  • K.K 10 years ago

    This judge is stupid this guy is to be fine and be on probation. why jail him 18 mouths for stealing plantain worth just 100 Ghana cedis. stupid judge

  • Prince 10 years ago

    I totally agree with u mate.:-)

  • AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C.,SPAIN 10 years ago

    -FOR STEALING PLANTAIN AT A COST OF 100 CEDIS,IS A FINE NOT JAIL.THE 18 MONTHS IN JAIL,WILL COST THE STATE TO SPEND MORE THAN 100 CEDIS ON HIM,AS A COST TO THE STATE.MR.JUDGE,WHY NOT FINE HIM ?

  • OBTT 10 years ago

    IT'S RATHER APPALLING TO READ SUCH CORRUPTIBLE JUDGEMENTS. THE ENTIRE GHANA JUDICIARY ARE VERY CORRUPT TO THE BONE. INASMUCH AS STEALING IS NOT RIGHT, I THINK THIS JUDGEMENT IS WRONG. MOST POLITICIANS HAVE STOLEN MILLIONS OF ...
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  • Nana yaw Kwarteng 10 years ago

    there is no fairness in this,he needs to be fine and put on probation . sentencing him wil not help him rather to become hard criminal since Ghana prison is not correctional place but to waste taks payers money and to reform ...
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  • kofi louis spain 10 years ago

    masa brodi3 ompo ni aahhhh

  • KOFI JATA 10 years ago

    I will like to pay to help this man out of jail.

  • Poor Farmer 10 years ago

    Is the Law only made for the poor ones ? What about the Dreaded Criminals who walk in the Executive corridors ? God have Mercy

  • Elias 4rm Nigeria 10 years ago

    Free him for christ sake

  • yaw 10 years ago

    some stole platain get 18 month and politians millions of pounds they free shame on ghanians

  • ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    How many years will Woyome get for stealing millions. I guess 1000 years. But with AKONFEM MAHAMA in charge woyome will be a free man. Useless country ruled by foolish judges(ATUGUBA) and criminal politicians

  • COS 90 10 years ago

    Just planatain, a farmer jailed for 18months. What about Wayome? someone who the state paid him gh 54m for no work done is working free. Politicians are stealing from the state, yet they walk free without an atom of jail. why ...
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  • ghana 10 years ago

    The culture of stealing in Ghana must stop.

  • ghana 10 years ago

    Ghanaians culture of stealing must stop !

  • Mata 10 years ago

    This is not fair, Some government officials , civil servarts loot state coffers and yet nothing is done to them . this is not Justice.