An ex-convict, David Gabieni has returned to the Kumasi Local Prison for the second time for breaking into his sister’s shop.
Gabieni has been in the bad books of his sister and both of them have not been at peace together.
Crime Check Foundation (CCF) shockingly spotted David at the Prison during the organization’s working visit to the facility.
In 2022, CCF paid for the ex-convict’s release from prison after he was jailed for breaking into a room he claimed his sister had seized though it belonged to him.
“I had left home to go and work somewhere. When I came back, my sister had given my room out for rent and thrown my things out,” he claimed.
This resulted in his sister initiating his imprisonment.
This time around, Gabieni broke into his sister’s wooden kiosk to pick up the mattress he claimed she had locked up and prevented him from having access to it.
Narrating how the events of his second imprisonment unfolded, the recidivist, told crimecheckghana.org that he dried his infested mattress in the sun for possible fumigation.
He said after almost a month of the mattress being left outside in the sun, his sister locked up the mattress in her shop and refused to let him have it back despite several attempts.
Gabieni said he got angry and burgled his sister’s shop and took his mattress. Her sister, furious about his action, caused his arrest.
“Later, when the police heard what happened they were even surprised and criticized my sister for her action but it was too late. They had processed me to appear before court already,” he indicated.
He said his sister was demanding One Thousand Eight Hundred Ghana cedis for the damages caused to her shop.
“I only broke the lock and the money she was demanding was outrageous. I could not afford it,” she said.
According to Gabieni, when he appeared before court, he pleaded for bail to enable him to pay the money in installments but the court refused his plea.
He was however fined the same amount his sister demanded and in his default, he was sentenced.
Crime Check Foundation on the second time paid for his release cautioning him to live upright.
This was part of CCF’s Time With the Prisoner Series, a televised programme of confessions of prison inmates that serves as a caution to the general public on the consequences of crime.
