An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 27-year-old house-help for allegedly stealing US$16, 000.00 from his boss, Mdaihli Fadlelah.
The accused, Thomas Yokpo, is also accused of stealing his boss’s Apsonic motorcycle worth GHC8,000.00.
The accused is believed to have used the money to travel to Nigeria in search of greener pastures.
Yakpo, who was accused of stealing, pled not guilty.
The accused was remanded to appear in court on October 31, 2023, for a Case Management Conference (CMC) presided over by Afia Owusuaa Appiah.
The court ordered the prosecution to file and serve all disclosures and witness testimonies by the next postponed date.
Police Inspector Nana Akua Boatemaa, representing Police Inspector Wisdom Alorwu, informed the Court that the complainant, Mdaihli Fadlelah, of Regimanuel Estate, Spintex Road, was a businessman, and the accused person lived in the complainant’s house.
According to the prosecution, on 14 March 2023, the complainant gave the accused person an amount of US$16, 000.00 to be given to one Ali on the Spintex road, but the accused person allegedly absconded with the money while riding the complainant’s Apsonic motorbike worth GHC8,000.00 to an unknown destination.
During the inquiry, the police learned that the accused left the motorbike with a friend in Koforidua, who was a witness in the case, and flew to Nigeria in search of greener pastures.
The prosecution, on September 27, 2023, said Richmond Annin, the accused person’s acquaintance in Koforidua, was detained, and it was via him that the accused person travelled from Nigeria to Ghana and was apprehended on September 30, 2023.
According to the investigative caution statement, the accused confessed to the offence as indicated in the charge sheet and stated that it was his friend Gideon, who is now at large, who assisted him in fleeing with the money and the motorbike.
The prosecution stated that the motorbike had been recovered and was being held by the police.
