Two home helpers of Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffour, are accused of stealing cash and different valuables price hundreds of thousands of Ghana Cedis and are being prosecuted in an Accra Circuit Courtroom.
The couple’s chamber of their dwelling in Abelemkpe, an Accra suburb, is the place the allegedly stolen funds had been discovered.
Between July and October 2022, Persistence Botwe, 18, and Sarah Agyei, 30, are accused of stealing the couple’s cash and private belongings.
Persistence and Sarah (A2) are accused of stealing US$1 million, €300,000, and hundreds of thousands of Ghana cedis, in addition to conspiring to commit against the law on one rely.
In the identical timeframe, Persistence and Sarah are accused of stealing the non-public belongings of Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, together with quite a lot of clothes price GHC 95,000, purses, and fragrances.
The remaining gadgets are jewellery price $95,000 from Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
Nevertheless, Persistence by herself took six items of Kente material costing GH90,000 and 6 units of males’s garments price US$3,000 over the identical time interval. This stuff belonged to the minister’s husband.
On Thursday, July 20, 2023, Susana Ekuful, the decide of an Accra Circuit Courtroom, heard the arraignment of all 5 accused individuals.
Though their pleas haven’t but been heard, Sarah has been granted bail within the quantity of GH1,000,000 with two sureties. The sureties are required to go away their Ghana ID playing cards with the courtroom’s registrar.
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As she was appearing as a aid decide, Her Honor Susana Ekuful added that the bail situation is topic to reconsideration by the substantive decide.
Persistence had been remanded into authorized care alongside along with her purported lovers and father.
Temporary info
The courtroom was instructed within the amended cost sheet and temporary info that Persistence, also called Maabena, was a home assist of the complainants, Daniel Osei Kuffour and his spouse, Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
The courtroom was additional instructed that Sarah was additionally a former home assist of the complainants.
Her Honour Susana Ekuful was instructed that the complainants reported the case to the police someplace in June, this 12 months, after detecting theft of money and their private results.
Previous to the grievance, Persistence was found utilizing a reproduction key to open and enter the couple’s room.
Mr. Kuffour, who had simply returned from city, found that A1 had been caught after listening to an odd noise emanating from their bed room and discovering that it had been opened.
When the preliminary grievance, Mr. Kuffour, entered the house, A1 was hid behind the door.
The complainants found that a few of their belongings had been lacking following this prevalence.
Regardless of being detained and granted police enquiry bail, A1 went into hiding along with her lover, Benjamin, in Tamale after being arrested.
The couple is alleged to have spent GH 105,600 renting a three-bedroom condo in Tamale and GH 120,000 renting a enterprise.
After receiving info, the police detained her, and a search of their flat resulted within the restoration of US$40,000 and GH$72,619.70.
In response to studies, Persistence paid $70,00 for a three-bedroom home in Amrahia and furnished it with brand-new gadgets like a chest cooler, a double-decker fridge, a water dispenser, a tv, and a washer.
She additionally spent GH80,000 on a Hyundai Elantra for Benjamin, who later offered it to purchase a Honda Civic.
A1 additionally gifted her ex-boyfriend Malik (GH$1,000,000) and GH$50,000 to her father.
A1 accused Sarah of being her confederate throughout questioning, in response to testimony given in courtroom.
Because of this, once they had been working collectively on the complainants’ dwelling, A1 would hold watch on the entrance gate to let Sarah steal from the couple’s room whereas they had been away.
When Sarah was detained in Budumburam, it was found by the course of the investigation that she had used her share of the stolen funds to assemble a three-bedroom dwelling close by.
To be continued until August 2, 2023.
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