Winneba (C/R), Nov. 8, GNA - The Winneba District Magistrate's Court on Friday jailed a 19 year-old self-styled student from Akim Oda, 24 months in hard labour for stealing 150 meters of telephone cables belonging to the Winneba branch of Vodafone Telephone Company. Sahakubu Musah pleaded guilty.

Police Chief Moses Naa-Kolojo Agbegme, prosecution, told the court presided over by Mr Ben Attabrah that in the early hours of November 4, this year, a mechanic apprentice who was going to work, heard an unusual noise from a nearby bush, near Windy Bay Guest House at Winneba Junction. The prosecution said the apprentice informed some neighbours and when they went to the scene they saw Musah with a quantity of telephone cables. He said Musah on seeing the people took to his heels, but his mobile phone and a cutlass were seen at the spot, which they handed them over to the Winneba Police.

Chief Inspector Agbegme said the police in their investigation scrolled the phone and saw a saved number of one Naziled Abudulai which they phoned and informed him that they have found a lost mobile phone and that they were looking for the owner.

He said Abudulai innocently told the police that he knew the owner and that the phone should be given one Issifu at Winneba Junction. The prosecution said the police arrested the said Issifu who took them to Abudulai at Akim Oda, where he was also arrested. He said Abudulai in the company of Issifu led the police to a town near Akima Oda, where Musah was arrested from his hideout and arraigned. Meanwhile, Mr Samuel Cabson, Winneba Area Manager of Vodafone, later told newsmen that, the theft was the sixth times at Winneba Junction, during the past four weeks.

He has therefore appealed to the people in the area to be on the alert and report suspected people to the police or his office.