A 63-year-old trader named Adamu Alhassan is reported to have stolen a tricycle used for transporting bread and sold it to scrap dealers for GhC700 in
A 63-year-old trader named Adamu Alhassan is reported to have stolen a tricycle used for transporting bread and sold it to scrap dealers for GhC700 in Bremang, located in the Ashanti Region.
Adamu is said to have distributed the bread in the tricycle to people walking by before selling the remaining portions.
The tricycle is reported to have a price of Ghc 35,000, and the bread it was transporting is valued at Ghc 1,650.
Adamu reportedly assisted a baker named Oduro Zakaria by helping him push his tricycle, which had broken down at Adehyeman station in Kumasi while he was en route to deliver 114 loaves of bread to his customers.
The trader is said to have presented himself as a station master to gain the baker’s trust and offered assistance in moving it to a safer location.
They both moved the vehicle to the Kejetia MTN roundabout, where the complainant entrusted it to Adamu while he went to find a mechanic.
When he came back an hour later with the mechanic, both the tricycle and the prisoner were reportedly gone.
The complainant hurried back to the lorry station, only to discover that Adamu was not an employee or the station master.
A witness in the case saw the convict at the station and contacted the complainant, which resulted in Adamu’s arrest.
In his statement, Adamu acknowledged that he took the tricycle and the bread.
He informed the police that he sold the tricycle to a scrap dealer in Bremang for GH¢700 and divided the money.
After an investigation, he was charged and appeared in court, where he received a five-year sentence.
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