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A toll booth attendant attached to the Ghana Highway Authority has
been remanded into police custody an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly
stealing GHȻ2.
The accused, Thomas Tetteh, is said to have on November 10, 2014 at
Ayi Mensah in Accra stolen the money belonging to the Government
Ghana.
According to the prosecution, Tetteh allegedly collected the money
from a tipper truck driver but failed to issue the ticket.
However, appearing before trial judge Aboagye Tandoh, the accused
denied the offence and was remanded into police custody to reappear on
December 22, 2014.
Prosecuting, Inspector Pat Hanson said the complainants are police
officers stationed at the Special Operation Unit (SOU) of the office
of the president while the accused is a toll booth attendant of the
Ghana Highway Authority resident at Teshie.
Prosecution stated that for some time now, there have been some
reports that some operators of the toll booth do not issue tickets to
drivers they receive monies from.
The police officer stated that by this practice, the toll booth
attendants enriched themselves while depriving the state of revenue
expected from the roads.
Inspector Hanson indicated that to forestall the practice, the SOU of
the office of the president deployed plain clothe personnel to check
the activities of the toll booth operators.
The prosecutor said that on the aforementioned date the complainants
visited the Ayi Mensah toll booth on the Accra-Aburi road, where
Tetteh collected money from a tipper truck driver but failed to issue
him a ticket.
He said the driver was contacted and in the presence of Tetteh he
admitted that the accused person did not issue him (the driver) ticket
after collecting money from him.
Prosecution said Tetteh was arrested and handed over to the Fraud Unit
of the CID headquarters for further investigations.
He said the accused in his caution statement admitted the offence.
Credit: Daily Guide
