Kumasi, (Ashanti Region) 3 Nov. '98 A 24-year-old former student of Prempeh College in Kumasi, Korankye Mensah, has been arrested and placed in police custody for allegedly stealing letters belonging to the college from its letter box at the main post office in Kumasi.

Police Inspector Augustine K. Arthur of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Directorate, said on Monday that Mensah was spotted by Emmanuel Yaw Asante, a mechanic opening the letter box and stuffing a black bag he was holding with the letters.

When Asante was challenged Mensah, he said the letter box belonged to him but still not convinced, Asante with the help of a policeman escorted Mensah with the bag to the police striking force unit.

Later at the police station Mensah confessed and explained that he was the post-boy of the college from 1989-96, when he was a student. During that period he took advantage and made a duplicate key of the college's letter box.

Inspector Arthur said when the bag was searched, 111 inland and six foreign letters belonging to students and tutors of the college were found and when he was escorted to his room at Old Tafo Adopom, 404 inland and 28 foreign letters, two registered slips and a rubber stamp belonging to the Assistant Headmaster of the college were found.