An Adentan Circuit Court has jailed 26-year-old washing bay attendant, Bright Owusu to three years imprisonment for stealing from his employer.
Owusu was one out of three washing bay attendants who stole and sold their employer’s working tools and abandoned their post.
The convict was charged with stealing after he pleaded guilty to stealing hydraulic pumps and a car battery all valued at Twenty Thousand and Two Hundred Ghana cedis.
The court presided over by Sedinam Awo Balokah convicted Owusu on his plea.
Owusu’s accomplice, who is a minor, was however remanded pending his plea.
The alleged minor is said to have bought the stolen items as scrap for a fee of Hundred Ghana cedis.
The court directed the Police to send Owusu’s accomplice, a scrap dealer to be sent to the Police Hospital to ascertain his age medically.
He is also facing a charge of dishonestly receiving.
Superintendent of Police Patience Mario, who held the brief of Inspector Gloria Ayim, said the complainant, Yussif Abubakar is a heavy-duty machine operator residing at Mallam, Accra.
Prosecution said the two accused persons reside at Oyibi, Accra.
According to prosecution, the complainant had a washing bay at Oyibi, where he engaged three men including Owusu to be washing cars and gave them a place to sleep at the workplace.
Prosecution said the complainant left three hydraulic pumps valued at Nineteen Thousand Five Hundred Ghana cedis and a car battery valued at Seven Hundred Ghana cedis in the care of the workers.
In the second week of December 2021, the complainant visited the washing bay and detected that the items mentioned earlier had been stolen and the workers were nowhere to be found.
Prosecution said on January 5, 2022, the complainant saw Owusu around the vicinity and apprehended him.
During interrogation, Prosecution said Owusu told the complainant that he stole two of the hydraulic pumps and sold it to the second accused person (the minor) for One Hundred Ghana cedis.
Prosecution said Owusu was escorted to the Oyibi Police station, where he also led the Police to apprehend the minor.
