— For attempting to collect pay for no work done

THE wild dream of an unemployed man to get rich quick has landed him in jail for 30 months with hard labour

The man, Abdul Karim Nantome, 28, on July 30, attempted collecting a pay slip at the Kwesi Mensah Shaft of the Ashanti Goldfield Company at Anyinam - Obuasi with a fictitious name.

Nantoma pleaded guilty to the charge of using a fictitious name to dupe the company.

Presenting the facts of the case to the circuit court, presided over by Mr Justice S. K. B. Alomatu, Chief Inspector Samuel Abbam Brown said the complainant, Mr Kwabena Addo, an AGC time keeper, was busily working when Nantoma burst into his office at Anyinam and requested for his pay slip.

Mr Brown said the officer, suspecting Nantoma to be a non-worker of the company, asked for his badge number, but he could only say that he works at level 35 underground.

The prosecutor said when Mr Addo insisted to see his badge to enable him search for the pay slip, Nantoma said he had left it at home and could not mention the number either.

Mr Addo, who could not bear the presssure from Nantoma anymore called in the mine security who arrested and handed Tantoma to the police.

A search conducted on him brought out some wrapped dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, hidden in his hip pocket.

Meanwhile the substance has been sent to the Police Forensic Laboratory for examination.