Cabbie Jailed For Stealing A Car

By Stephen K.Effah
Tuesday, 10 June 2008

A 47-year-old cabbie was last Thursday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by a circuit court in Accra for stealing a taxi-cab he was entrusted with.

The cabbie, Awudu Nelson, was convicted on his own plea by the court presided over by Mrs. Georgina Mensah Datsa.

Presenting the case for the prosecution, Chief Inspector Mary Adika, told the court that Madam Juliana Addey told a friend of hers about her taxi-cab for which she needed a driver.

She said, on April 3, Madam Addey’s friend introduced Nelson to her as a taxi cab driver.

Consequently, Madam Addey engaged him to drive the taxi but asked him to park the car after work everyday at her house.

The prosecution told the court that since that very day, Madam Addey never set eyes on Nelson again. She then complained to her friend about the development and they mounted a search for Nelson.

According to the prosecution, on May 22, someone informed Madam Addey that Nelson was hiding at Agbogbloshie Market so she informed the Kaneshie Police and together they traced him to the market and arrested him.

During interrogation, Nelson told the police that while working on April 3, his first day of engagement, he stopped under the Kaneshie footbridge to pick a passenger, when he spotted a mini bus full of police officers so he sped off.

He said, he drove towards Abossey Okai where he abandoned the taxi and absconded.

He said when he went to the place later to pick the taxi, he could not find it there.