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A 24-year-old Ghanaian unemployed man will turn 38 years old <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/news/local/dear-employers-we-know-were-replaceable-and-jobs-are-indeed-hard-to-come-by-pulse/wnvc7c3">by the time he finishes serving a 14-year jail term handed him by the Tepa Circuit Court for stealing plantain &amp; cassava worth GH¢50.</a>

24-year-old unemployed Ghanaian jailed 14 years for stealing plantain & cassava worth GH¢50 | Pulse Ghana

Andreas Kamasah

<p>According to the Ghana News Agency, Justice Ezekiel, pleaded guilty to stealing the food items from a farm at Akwasiase, near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District.</p>

<p>The court presided over by Gwendolyn Millicent Owusu in its wisdom then sentenced the young man on his own plea to almost a decade and a half year imprisonment.</p>

<p>The court heard that on September 5th, 2021, the convict had gone to harvest the plantain and the cassava secretly.</p>

<p>However, luck eluded him while he was loading them into a sack and the owner of the farm caught him red-handed.</p>

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<p>Police Chief Inspector, Jonas Newlove Agyei told the court that Ezekiel was handed over to the Tepa police station together with the stolen foodstuff.</p>

<p>He added that the suspect who is an ex-convict confessed to the crime in his caution statement. He was then charged and arraigned for the court which eventually led to his imprisonment.</p>

<p>The court judgement begs the question of whether or not the sentence meted out to the poor Ezekiel is commensurate with the offence of stealing plantain &amp; cassava worth GH¢50.</p>

24-year-old Ghanaian unemployed man jailed 14 years for stealing plantain & cassava worth GH¢50

24-year-old unemployed Ghanaian jailed 14 years for stealing plantain & cassava worth GH¢50

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