A young man whose name has been identified as Justice Ezekiel 24 years of age has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment after he was arrested for stealing some cassava and plantain which is worth GH50.
The young man who is unemployed was said to have been arrested and proceeded to the Tepa Circuit Court where he was sentenced to spend a lot of years after stealing the items.
According to reports, the young man pleaded guilty to the crime after he was presented and charged by the court and was said to spend a decade and half years imprisonment for the crime.
The case which was presided over by Gwendolyn Millicent Owusu sentenced the poor man who would be 38 years old by the time he finishes serving a 14-year jail term handed him by the court.
it was said that the young man had stolen the food items from a farm at Akwasiase, near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North District