A 20
YEAR-old man will have to spend the next four years behind bars after being
jailed for stealing a laptop, being used for the ongoing Ghana
Card registration exercise in the Ashanti Region.
Identified
as Prince Kwadwo Boakye, the convict was said to have managed to steal the
laptop and formatted it, thereby deleting all the vital information on it.
According
to reports, personnel of the National Identification Authority (NIA) were
registering people in Agona when Kwadwo Boakye took advantage and stole the
laptop.
After the
day’s exercise on December 16, 2019, the NIA personnel kept their HP laptops
and other registration equipments in one of the rooms at the Agona Community
Center.
Coincidentally,
that same room also served as the storage place for properties belonging to one
of the leading churches in Agona, where the convict is said to be a member.
Kwadwo
Boakye after stealing the laptop quickly formatted it, perhaps, in an attempt
to delete traces of it in order to prevent him from being arrested.
After realizing
the theft, personnel of the NIA, rushed to the police at Agona and officially
lodged a complaint. The police then began investigations.
The police,
after investigations, apprehended Kwadwo Boakye and arraigned him, where he
pleaded guilty to a stalling charge at a court in Nsuta. He was then sentenced
for four years.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
