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Court jails farmer for stealing cocoa fertiliser bags

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  • Holly 11 years ago

    The courts don't hesitate to punish the average citizens for petty crimes, but gargantuan thieves gets no jail time.

  • Mike 11 years ago

    Why not community sentence the list crime jail, forgetn that our tax money is what we use to feed them in jail. Is now known in GH politician stealers re allow to go while e hungry thief thrown to jail even if he /she could ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    What a shame? Judge, use your brains. How much will it cost to keep this petit thief in prison? Why not supervised community service even at the place where he sold the sacks? Why not sentence him to fill pot holes, clear roa ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 11 years ago

    If merely taking 2 fertilizer bags worth GH¢ 66.00 is rewarded with imprisonment for half a year, then Pres JM who authorized the payment of allowances and salaries to non-working MPs will be jailed for a googol years for de ...
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  • Cindy 11 years ago

    The corrupt thieves known as politicians, don't go to jail, not even for murder. But a poor guy stole a common fertilizer and he's facing jail time. What a bunch of crap!

  • DAN 11 years ago

    manure( chicken shit,cow shit) works just as good, infact chicken manure must age or it will burn plants

  • Shingles, K. Poly 11 years ago

    we live in a crazy world that people work like the ant and eats like the elephant while others work like the elephant and eats like an ant. One person conniving with one party, for their selfish ego, stole the nations money w ...
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  • Kofi UK 11 years ago

    This is absurd. Sentencing guidelines must be reviewed otherwise the poor will always face injustice. This is too hash for a poor man who stole bags that have no value.

  • John 11 years ago

    This is the world in which we live. Dan Abudakpi was jailed for how many year after the millions he too? Yet he was pardoned. Malam Issa served how many year? Wereko Brodie is still walking around after Ghana at 50. What happ ...
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  • john mahama 11 years ago

    ghana justices should be retrained.

  • Citizen 11 years ago

    The judge is a fool for sending him to jail for just stealing cocoa sacks, Ghana is really fucked up.

  • MIKE GIZO 11 years ago

    I suppose the case of afari gyan and john mahama is going to be severe if people can be arrested for stealing cocoa fertliser bags.
    We live to see.