Man receives a year and eight months jail term for stealing a cow
A moderately aged Fulani man, Bukari Issah, was on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, indicted and condemned to serve a year and eight months jail for stealing a cow.
Introducing facts of the case under the steady gaze of the Kintampo District court, arraignment, John Mensah expressed that at about 7pm, on the night of September 24, this year, the primary denounced (Bukari Issah), figured out how to sneak into the cows homestead of the complainant (Lukman Salifu), a butcher who lives at Dawadawa number 2, in the Kintampo North Municipality of the Bono Region and took a bovine.
He at that point sorts the help of one Issaka Osman, the subsequent denounced to ship the taken cow to Techiman under the mask of offering it to a family member, who required it to play out a burial service customs.
The Herald captured " They were, however, arrested on their way to Techiman with the cow by night police patrol team. They were then taken to the Kintampo police station, where they were interrogated and detained.
The complainant, having heard of the rest of the accused, came to the police station and was able to identify the cow as his. The accused were then charged with stealing per section 124, subsection 1 of act 29-60.
During prosecution, the first accused, who pleaded guilty to the account of stealing was convicted by his honour- Maxwell Titriku. The second accused was, however, acquitted and discharged.
Animal theft is said to be in the increase in the Kintampo township and its environs. The area, said to be harbouring nomadic Fulani herdsmen, is equally battling with on and off farmers-nomadic tango for some time now."
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