GRA driver jailed for selling official vehicle
GRA driver jailed for selling official vehicle
GRA driver jailed for selling official vehicle
Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA),
Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota Land Cruiser at the
cost of GH₵20,000.00 has been sentenced to 18 months
imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court.
Mr Ahiadzro, charged with stealing and forgery of documents,
pleaded not guilty.
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The court, presided over by Ms Ama Adomako Kwakye, however,
found Mr Ahiadzro guilty and sentenced him accordingly.
The convict sold the vehicle to one Pastor Solomon Fiabi of
the lighthouse Chapel, who was charged with dishonestly receiving.
He was sentenced to a fine of GH₵2,400.00.
The Pastor pleaded guilty to the charge, saying Mr Ahiadzro informed
him that he bought the vehicle after it had been auctioned at his work place.
Prosecuting, Sergeant Apeweh Achana, said the complainant was
the GRA and that Mr Ahiadzro was a Custom Officer recruited
as driver and stationed with Post Clearance Audit Unit.
Pastor Fiabi is a Minister of God and one of the pastors with
Lighthouse Chapel also known as The Mega Church in Ghana.
Sergeant Achana said Mr Ahiadzro used to be the driver in
charge of Toyota land Cruiser (PRADO) with registration number GN 2904 Y.
Prosecution said during the first quarter of the year 2019,
the convict allegedly fell sick and stopped coming to work.
He said in the month of August 2019, Mr Ahiadzro came to GRA
head office compound and drove the said Land Cruiser out.
The prosecution said the vehicle was not brought back to the GRA
compound by the convict and that on September 17, 2019,
Mr Ahiadzro was invited to the office and questioned about the
whereabouts of the vehicle and he denied knowing
where the vehicle was.
Mr Achana said investigations revealed that Mr Ahiadzro stole
the vehicle from the GRA head Office and sold same to Pastor Fiabi
at the cost of GH₵20,000.00 at Kasoa in the Central Region in August 2019.
Sergeant Achana said Pastor Fiabi was traced to a Pastors Conference
at Kasoa where he was asked to bring the vehicle to
the Customs head office.
Prosecution said he brought the vehicle and told investigators that
Mr Ahiadzro sold the vehicle to him and that he told him that the
vehicle was auctioned to him from the office because it had an accident.
The prosecution said Mr Ahiadzro said he told Fiabi that the
payment of the vehicle was done in installment for three years.
He said Mr Ahiadzro went ahead to forge documents of the vehicle
such as the DVLA form C and the Customs declaration form.
According to the Prosecution, Mr Ahiadzro also changed the vehicle
registration number from GN 2904 Y to GE 8052 Z.
It said further checks at the DVLA office at 37 revealed that the
documents prepared by Mr Ahiadzro and given to Fiabi were forged.
