THIRTY SIX-year old Emmanuel Kweku Twum, a supervisor at the Tema Community 1 branch of the Goil Filling Station who was arrested and arraigned before the Tema Circuit Court ‘A’ for stealing coupons worth GH¢38,330.00 belonging to his employers, has been convicted on his own plea and sentenced to a two-year jail term.
Twum early on pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing with explanation, when he appeared before the circuit court presided over by Eric Kyei Baffour.
Judge Kyei Baffour deferred Twum’s sentence to last Friday before slapping him with the two-year jail term.
Prosecution in a narration during Twum’s maiden appearance before the court mentioned the complainant as Emmanuel Heletsi, manager of the Tema Community 1 Goil Filling Station and Emmanuel Kweku Twum, a supervisor of the said station as the accused person.
According to prosecution, during the month of June 2013, the accused was sent to deliver some coupons which were used by customers to purchase fuel at the station to the head office in Accra for retention. Emmanuel failed to send the coupons worth GH¢38,330 to the head office as instructed by his superior at the Community 1 branch but rather gave them out to some of his friends to be sold.
The accused, according to prosecution, managed to forge signatures of receiving clerks at the head office to make his employers believe that he had submitted the coupons. His action was said to have gone unnoticed for some time until it was detected that the statement of accounts of the company for that period did not reflect the returned coupons to the office.
In his explanation, the accused noted that he was misled by his friends into committing the crime and further stated that he did not know the true value of the coupons until he was arrested by the police. His hope of perhaps having a lenient punishment for the crime was dashed when the court sentenced him to two years imprisonment with hard labour.
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