54-YEAR-OLD CONVICT TO FACE ANOTHER CHARGE (PAGE 38)

Fresh trouble hit a 54-year-old trickster on his way to prison to serve a five-year jail term for stealing when he was identified as the man who had earlier snatched a taxi from its driver.
Evans Acquah had been convicted and sentenced by the Takoradi Circuit Court, but before he could begin his jail term, the taxi driver, who was on the court premises, identified Acquah as the one who snatched his taxi in the Central Region last year.
A warrant of gaoler is, therefore, to be issued by the Central Regional Police to the Sekondi Prisons for Acquah to be escorted to the Central Region to face fresh charges.
According to Joseph Kweku Mensah, the taxi driver, Acquah hired his taxi, with registration number WR 300 Y, from Takoradi to Abura Dunkwa in the Central Region some time in November last year but halfway through the journey, he (the driver) stopped to attend the call of nature.
He said Acquah took advantage of his short absence and drove the car away, adding that “November last year was the last time I saw the taxi and I reported the matter to the police”.
In the substantive case, Acquah had approached mobile vendors who were dealing in generators and other household equipment and expressed interest in buying two of the generators for his two wives for domestic use.
After arriving at a price of GH¢600 for the two, Acquah led the vendors to a woman he described as his first wife, where he deposited the items and asked the vendors to accompany him to his second wife for the money.
The police said Acquah took the vendors to a location and asked them to wait while he picked the money. The vendors waited for hours and later realised that there had been a scam.
They combed every part of the vicinity and went back to the place where they left the generator, only to be told that the convict had gone to collect them and left.
Two days later, Acquah was spotted by the mobile van team at Kwesimintsim on its way to Tarkwa and he was apprehended and handed over to the police.
He led the police and the complainants to Kokompe in Takoradi, where the two generators had been displayed for sale.
He has begun his sentence at the Sekondi Prison, waiting for the gaoler’s warrant for his movement to the Central Region to help in investigations into the fresh charge.