0A 39-YEAR-OLD unemployed, Seidu Yahaya, who deceitfully collected GH¢ 1,800 from a trader to buy certain items to enable him to turn some gold dust into cash has been sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment in hard labour by the Kumasi Circuit Court.
Yahaya pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing and fraud and was consequently convicted on his own plea.
Chief Inspector Comfort Baafuor Kyei, prosecuting, told the court, presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Amoh Yartey, that the trader, Millicent Owusua, lived at Kronum, while the convict lived at Ahenkro, both suburbs of Kumasi.
The prosecutor said some time in December 2006, Owusua’s grandmother quietly told her that she had buried some treasure (gold dust) in her room at Akim Apedwa, near Kibi in the Eastern Region, and directed the grandaughter to find someone to dig it for her.
According to the prosecutor, Owusua started looking for someone who could help do the job. Not too long, Yahaya was introduced to her to do the job for her.
On December 31, 2006, Yahaya and Owusua travelled to Apedwa, where Yahaya ably dug the hidden treasure from the room of the late grandmother, as it was directed.
However, with the intention to swindle the complainant, Yahaya requested for GH¢1,800 to enable him to buy some items to be used for certain rites before he could change the gold dust to cash.
The prosecutor said without wasting time, Owusua managed to raise the money for Yahaya and he left with both the gold dust and the cash.
After three days, Yahaya returned with some substance, which he claimed was the gold dust and handed it over to the woman, saying, “the gods have now blessed it”.
However, with the help of a goldsmith, it was found out that Yahaya had rather brought her brass instead of the gold dust that he took away.
The prosecutor said after almost three years, Owusua saw Yahaya at Afrancho and made a report to the police, who arrested him.
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