A twenty-eight year unemployed man, Gibson Sechrey, has been remanded into police custody by a Cape Coast Circuit Court for allegedly breaking into a warehouse to steal heavy duty batteries worth GH?4,000.00, a property of MTN, a mobile telecommunication network in Ghana.
Sechrey, a resident of Ola Estate in Cape Coast, pleaded not guilty to the charges of unlawful entry and stealing and will be re-arraigned on May 7.
Prosecuting, Chief Police Inspector Charles Anku told the court presided over by Ms. Florence Otu, that, the complainants who are engineers of American Towers Corporation Ghana, telecommunication providers, responsible for building telephone for Mobile Service providers.
He told the court that for about a year the Company had been complaining of thefts in their warehouse located at the University of Cape Coast.
He said in the early hours of Sunday, March 16, Sechrey went on one of the telephone masts at the UCC campus and stole two heavy duty batteries worth GH?4,000.00.
Sechrey was spotted by some students carrying the batteries away and took to his heels when he was confronted but was arrested some few meters away from the scene.
Chief Inspector Anku said he escaped from police custody after his arrest but was re-arrested when spotted on campus. GNA
