Two inmates at the Awutu Camp Prison are still not at peace with each other over their imprisonment.
Prosper Lunator, 28, denies his involvement in a botched scheme to steal, which would have fetched him One Thousand Ghana cedis daily.
But 23-year-old Emmanuel Addo admits been an accomplice of the failed operation and implicates Lunator.
The duo engaged in a battle of narration to make the sides of their stories known on who was speaking the truth.
Lunator and Addo are former security officers of a palm fruits plantation.
According to Lunator, Addo and a supervisor at the farm had been stealing from the farm before he joined.
He said he was however approached by Addo and the supervisor to join them in stealing palm fruits, which will earn him an amount of money more than he received as a monthly salary.
“Addo told me what they have been doing to earn extra cash but I disagreed with them. He said since I was the one to inspect the produce after harvesting, it will be best I join them but I declined,” he told crimecheckghana.org.
Lunator claimed on the day of harvesting some of the fruits that Addo and the supervisor gave him a wrong figure of the produce less than what had been harvested.
Fortunately for him, another staff who was present during the counting of the palm fruit bunches raised an alarm that the figure had been altered.
“Because Addo was senior to me, he sent me away though I was assigned to take stock while they wanted to count the number of produce harvested. Instead of 285 fruit bunches, they gave me the number of produce as 257. Addo and the supervisor had connived with a tricycle rider to convey the stolen palm fruits from the farm. I was never part of their scheme,” Lunator asserted.
Emmanuel Addo however nodded with utter shock while Lunator made his allegations.
Addo said Lunator was the mastermind behind the botched stealing operation after he had warned that it was going to be unsuccessful.
“I told Lunator that we should abandon the stealing idea because the supervisor had infiltrated our group to ascertain if there was theft ongoing in the fields.
“Addo said he was not going to stop stealing the fruits because he needed to repay a loan. Lunator led the operation and even said I should not count myself to benefit from the sales of the stolen fruits,” he said.
Addo admits he had a role in planning the crime but denies having a hand in the stealing that landed them in jail.
The two were reported to the Managing Director of the farms who caused their arrest. They were arraigned before a court because Lunator insisted he was innocent.
However, the court found both culpable and jailed them for two years each at the Koforidua Local Prison.
Crime Check Foundation (CCF) met both inmates at the Awutu Camp Prison when they were transferred.
CCF cautions the public on the consequences of actions that the law frowns upon.
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By Rudolph Nandi
