German Resident's Tiles Stolen

Accra, Feb. 20, GNA - The Greater-Accra Magistrate Court on Friday sentenced two persons to a total fine of four million cedis, for stealing 70 boxes of floor tiles, estimated at about two million cedis, the property of a Ghanaian resident in Germany.
Fianko Kojo and Innocent Atiso, a mason and mechanic respectively, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and stealing, will go to prison for six months each, if they fail to pay the fine.
Presenting the facts of the case, Police Inspector Alice Yeboah told the court, presided over by Mrs. Olivia Owusu that the complainant, Master Richard Asibroni, lives in his mother's house at Sowutuom in Accra, while the accused persons are tenants in the house. Inspector Yeboah said Master Asibroni 's mother who resides in Germany sent home 70 boxes of roofing tiles to be used on her house at Sowutuom, but when the complainant's mother went back to Germany, the two convicts planned with a common purpose to steal the 70 boxes of tiles .
The Prosecutor said when Kojo and Atiso were later arrested in connection with the theft, they admitted, saying they sold 12 boxes to a certain man at the cost of 300,000 cedis.
Inspector Yeboah said when the police visited the man's house he could not be traced, adding the police was doing everything possible to arrest the man for questioning.