An Ajumako District Court has sentence Kojo Gyasi to six months in prison for stealing ¢50 worth of plantain in a farming community of Ampiah-Ajumako in the Central Region. After he couldn’t pay for a Ghc 1,200 fine, Kojo Gyasi pleaded guilty to stealing the food items from farm at Ampiah-Ajumako
According to the father of one, he was unemployed and worked as a laborer on people’s farms and construction sites.
“The only work I could do is a laborer job and farming because it is a deprived area. At a point, I no longer got calls even to do the laborer jobs, which forced me to steal,” he told crimecheckghana.org during a visit to the Winneba Local Prison.
‘The foreman I used to work for ignored me and bought laborers from Accra to work in the village, so life was difficult for me. I am begging the owner of the plantain I stole to forgive me,” he pleaded.
Gyasi had spent two months in prison when Crime Check Foundation (CCF) met him during its prison visits.
The young man was part of the 47 inmates of various prisons who benefited from Actress Nana Ama McBrown’s initiative to pay their fines for their release through CCF’s Petty Offenders project.
