Driving a taxi without number gives away a criminal

Tema, Oct 28, GNA - A Tema Circuit Court was on Tuesday told of how a man pressed the key of a taxi cap on a key soap and later made a duplicate key that aided him to steal the taxi and drove it to attend a funeral at Agavedzi near Keta in the Volta Region.

A Keta police patrol team arrested Reuben Agboada, a painter, for driving a vehicle without registration number. He had removed the number plate and the stickers of the taxi.

Agboada told the court that frustration compelled him to adopt dubious means to steal the taxi and the court sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour.

Chief Inspector Edith Nutakor stated that Agboada hired the taxi to Sakumono to pick his grandmother.

While waiting for the grandmother to get ready Agboada hosted the driver, Mr William Kofi Kyeremanteng, to some drinks in the room. The accused collected the ignition key under the pretext of listening to music in the vehicle, pressed it into a key bar soap and later made a duplicate one.

Chief Inspector Nutakor said Agboada later traced the driver to where he normally parked his taxi near the Okanta Clinic at Ashaiman and on October 18 drove it away with the duplicate key.