A circuit court at Goaso has sentenced Kwame Frafra, a 32 year old unemployed to six years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing a quantity of electric cables. He pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing. Chief Inspector Ben Brew of Mim Police station told the court presided by Charles Quampah that Kwame, who resided at Mim Zongo, on carried a large quantity of the cables and dumped them at a place near the residence of Ajara Bawa, also a resident of the area. The prosecutor said the convict started burning the cables with a lorry tyre and when Ajara enquired from him why he was doing that he replied that he wanted to scare snakes away. Chief Inspector Brew said when Ajara drew nearer and saw that they were electric cables she asked him where he got them but Kwame took to his heels so she raised an alarm and was immediately arrested. The same court imposed a fine of four million cedis on a Kumasi-based food trader for stealing okro from someone’s farm at Nkaseim in Asutifi district of Brong Ahafo. Ama Adutwumwaa, 54, pleaded guilty to the charge and will go to prison for a year if she fails to pay the fine. Police Inspector Douglas Asaana, prosecutor, told the court that Ama arrived at Nkaseim on February 14 (Valentine’s Day) to buy plantain and vegetables for sale in Kumasi. He said at dawn the next day the trader, armed with two flashlights sneaked into someone’s farm and started harvesting okro but was found by a palm wine tapper who apprehended and arrested her. Source: GNA