A 32-year-old galamsey operator held for unlawful entry, causing damage and stealing, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa District Court One.

Amadu Amidu alias ‘Attah’ pleaded guilty to all the charges levelled against him and was convicted accordingly.

The prosecutor, Sergeant Enoch Assan-Donkoh, told the court presided over by Mr Charles Owusu Nsiah, that the complainant Daniel Cobbinah, was a businessman resident at Cyanide, a suburb of Tarkwa.

He said on November 28, 2024, at about 3:20 am, the complainant received a phone call that someone was seen entering his drinking bar located at the Tarkwa Railway Station.

He said the complainant went to the scene and saw that several people had converged around his bar, and he observed that the trap door leading to the bar had been destroyed.

Sergeant Assan-Donkoh said the complainant entered the bar and with the help of some residents arrested Amidu and took him to the Railway Station police post.

The prosecution said the complainant detected that the trap door valued at GH¢500 and four jackpot machines valued at GH¢14,000 were damaged and coins amounting to GH¢ 800 which were inside the machines had been stolen.

He said the complainant officially complained to the police and Amidu was detained to assist in investigations.

The court heard that Amidu in his caution statement alleged he gave the money in the Jackpot machine (coins) to the complainant, but he denied it, and after investigations, the convict was charged with the offence and put before the Court.