As Ghana looks for innovative ways to deal with her many
problems, some traders at Odo Rice, near Nkruma Circle have also found a more productive way to deal with common thieves in the area.
What pertained in the past, by way of punishment to suspected thieves when they are unlucky to be apprehended was to either lynch them or doll out a slaps to their faces.
Those forms of punishments,as effective as they may be , are unproductive hence the decision by the residents to innovate.
The first suspected thief to benefit from this innovation was a young man who gave his name as Kofi Yesu also know as Guy Guy.
Kofi allegedly entered a shop near the Odo Rice area while the shop’s owner was outside taking part in a regular cleaning exercise that is organized on the day set side for such purposes- Sanitation Day.
Kofi succeeded in carrying a bag containing GHS 700.00 and an Iphone X cell phone, hid it beneath his dress as he lurked in waiting for opportunity to run.
Luck, however run out of him when the shop owner suspected his movement and confronted him.
To show that he was indeed a ‘guy’, Kofi spoke Hausa with a stern face that was expected to scare the shop owner.
As fate will have it , the shop owner who also speaks Hausa fluently, replied kofi with equal sternness amidst further questions.
It was base on this questions that the traders who now gathered around Kofi found out that all the Hausa he could speak were his first few words to the shop owner.
As questions flew in from all angles, Kofi confessed to stealing the bag, which he brought out under his shirt.
According to an eyewitness who spoke exclusively to adomonline.com in a telephone interview, Kwame Destiny at this point , the crowd called for his release so they could give him some beating but wise counsel prevailed as they agreed on a more productive punishment.
The residents agreed that as the day was earmarked for sanitation, Kofi Yesu is made to desilt the drains, a punishment he gladly accepted and undertook with his bare hands albeit diligently.
According to Destiny, the suspect told traders that he resided at Konkomba Market in Accra; therefore when he was done with his punishment, the traders got him bike with GHC10 and bode him farewell with the advise that he sins no more.
Source:adomonline.com
