A mother and her two daughters were set to spend three months in prison for taking some leftover corn estimated at GH¢10 which did not belong to them, MyNewsGh.com has filed.
According to Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng of Crime Check Foundation, a court found them guilty and consequently sentenced all three including a lactating mother after they were unable to raise GH¢360 slapped on them.
He, however, revealed that Black Stars winger Christian Atsu came to the rescue of the convicts and through the Crime Check Foundation donated GH¢1000 for their release.
They are set to be released on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng wrote “Cases like this make a strong case for a review of Ghana’s criminal justice laws. They may not have had permission for collecting the leftovers from the farm, but in a country where poverty is endemic in most rural communities, what some rural folks do is to go searching for rejected harvested corn to keep their families alive. Sadly the innocent baby of Joyce had to follow the mum to prison. They tell me their farmlands have been sold out to a company, so they have to go looking for corn which offers them Akple twice a day. Fortunately, a good Samaritan has paid for their 360 court fine to enable them go home on Tuesday to continue with their huzzle. You can imagine the joy on their faces when CCF donated 1000 cedis to them from Black Stars winger, Christian Atsu.
Meanwhile, some big men chop state funds and use technicalities to go scot free in court. What a country we live in!”
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Atsu God richly bless you more but i think our judiciary system must be amended,this dont call for jail sentence, we see politician who go about stealing huge sums of public funds and nothings is done. eg wayome cant be jailed and look at this poor innocent family.the judge behind this is disgrace to humanity.God purnish him or her.
God bless you for your kind gesture towards this poor family......we wish you well in life
the judge is a fulllllllll
Iread a story in the US where a mother was caught stealing some eggs from a store and a police officer was brought in to arrest her,after listening to the womans plight the policeman went to the same store and asked the woman to take whatever she wanted after which he paid for her,when asked why he did that his answer was this"SOMETIMES LET US APPLY HUMANITY AND NOT THE LAW" which judge gave such a sentence? God help us.
Is that the Picture of Christian Atsu? Peace fm paaaa
I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES WHEN I READ STORIES LIKE THESE.THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO PRAY PERSISTENTLY FOR GOD'S KINGDOM TO COME FOR HIS HOLY SON JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH TO REIGN AS KING OF THE WORLD OTHER THAN THAT THERE WILL NEVER BE TRUE JUSTICE.
Atsu God richly bless you.
Surely, this footballer has more common sense than our judges. Bless you Mr. Atsu; shame on all you judges. Knowledge is valueless if it is not combined with wisdom and wisdom is simply 'common sense', which is not common at all.
ITS A JUST A SHAME!!!!! GOD HAVE MERCY ON ALL OF US IN GH.
Ewiase paaaaa? Indeed the "old cloth gets torn at the weaker side". Imagine how those in the auditor's report are still walking free on the streets.