Ghana: Court Jails Unemployed for Stealing Phone

5 November 2008

A Sekondi Magistrate Court has sentenced Yaw Kudagari, a 20-year-old unemployed to six months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing a mobile phone valued at 200 Ghana cedis.

He pleaded guilty.

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