Nsuta court jails tricycle rider 5 years for stealing GH¢42,000 Pragya

The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 22-year-old commercial tricycle rider, Ali Francis, to five years' imprisonment for stealing a Pragya valued at GH¢42,000, and YEN.com.gh reported on Wednesday 11 November 2026.

According to the prosecution, led by Detective Chief Inspector Favour Adukpoe, the tricycle's owner, a commercial operator living at Kyebi, had given the vehicle to another rider to operate on his behalf. On 12 September 2026, at about 1pm, that rider fell ill and handed the Pragya to Francis, who lives at Mampong, to work with for the rest of the day.

The prosecution said Francis did not return the vehicle as expected and took it to an unknown location. The owner reported the matter to the Nsuta Police on 14 September, and officers went with him to Francis' home at Mampong, but he was not there.

Francis was later brought before the Nsuta Circuit Court, which convicted him of stealing and imposed the five-year custodial sentence. The reports did not state the date of sentencing, how he pleaded or whether the tricycle was recovered.

The same court sentenced a driver to five years in October for stealing GH¢195 from a Pragya operator's cash box at Jeduako, near Nsuta.