From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
BARELY 40 hours after being appointed as the sales and marketing officer of a firm in Takoradi, a young unassuming man has been arrested by the police for stealing.
Eric Essuman, is alleged to have broken into the vaults of his employer and made away with cash and cheques amounting to thousands of Ghana cedis.
After making use of the cash of more than GH¢5,000, Essuman was said to be in the process of cashing the cheques through a third party when he was apprehended.
According to the police, Essuman went to the bank to cash one of the cheques, but was asked to bring his identity card due to the face value.
To avoid detection, he then went home and asked a mobile phone prepaid card retailer near his house to go to the bank and cash the money on his behalf using her identity card since he could not find his.
Upon reaching the bank, and unknown to him and the phone card dealer, the bank manager had called the customer to confirm the issuance of the said cheque before payment.
The customer, according to the police, confirmed issuing the cheque but not to an individual but a company. The customer also informed the manager that he had informed the company not to present the cheque, since his outfit would be paying in cash.
The police said the customer then phoned the employers of Essuman, who told him that the cheque together with others in their vaults had been stolen.
The bank manager, according to the police, called for the arrest of anyone who presented the cheque to the bank.
After her arrest, the phone card dealer was made to call Essuman to go for the money.
He quickly rushed to the place for the money and he was arrested by the police.
About 25 different cheques issued to his employers with a face value close to more than GH¢15,200 was retrieved, but he could not account for the cash he stole.
He has since been remanded in prison custody to re-appear before court on November 15, 2010.
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