Two teachers and a student standing trial
for stealing
Former student
arraigned for theft
Two teachers and a student standing trial
for stealing
Savelugu (Northern Region) 21 June 2000
Two teachers and a student at Moglaa Primary and JSS in Savelugu township are being tried by the community tribunal for allegedly stealing food ration worth 1.140 million cedis belonging to the school.
The headteacher, Mutari Mohammed Fuseini, 50, and Henry Sagoe, 28 former teacher at the school pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing.
The student, Gideon Mohammed 23, also pleaded not guilty to abetment of crime and the tribunal chaired by Alhaji Haruna Seidu granted the headmaster one million cedis bail with one surety to be justified while the student received 500,000 cedis bail also with one surety to be justified.
Sagoe was however remanded in police custody to reappear on June 22.
Prosecutiong told the tribunal that when the school re-opened on May 3, after the Easter holidays, the headteacher detected the loss of 13 cartons of edible oil donated to the school by Catholic Relief Service.
He said Fuseini reported the incident to the police, but investigations revealed that nobody has broken into the storeroom, although as headteacher, he was keeping the keys to the room.
Sergeant Atongo said the headteacher later brought the student to the police station who confessed that he had sold 14 bottles of the oil supplied to him by Sagoe to a trader.
Sagoe was consequently arrested at Buipe in the West Gonja district and the three were arraigned before the tribunal.
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Former student
arraigned for theft
Cape Coast (Central Region) 21
June 2000
A former student of the Mfantsipim
School, who allegedly returned to the school to steal was on Monday remanded in
prison custody by a Cape Coast Circuit court. He has been charged with unlawful
entry and stealing.
Emmanuel Essandoh, 24, pleaded
guilty to unlawful entry and not guilty to stealing and is to reappear on
Monday June 26.
The court heard that a student and
a watchman saw Essandoh loitering around the form one block on the school
compound at 12 mid-night of May 15.
When questioned, he gave the
excuse that he had gone there to study. The watchman was not convinced and
searched Essandoh’s bag, where he found textbooks, a Bible, a hymn book, a
scientific calculator, a bag and an electric iron.
Essandoh could not tell how he
came by the items and was handed over to the Headmaster, who reported the case
to the Police.
The following day some students in
form one detected that their things were missing from their desk and later
identified the items found with Essandoh as theirs.
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