The Nsuaem/Kyekyewere Circuit Court has remanded two construction company employees into police custody for allegedly stealing an excavator from a road construction site at Assin Nduaso in the Central region.
Godfred Amoh and William Tweneboah have been charged with stealing from a Japanese construction company, Shimizu Company Limited.
The excavator was used on the Assin Fosu to Assin Praso N8 roadway and was worth GH₵480,000.
Mr Jay, the general safety manager of the construction firm, is the complainant in the case.
According to him, the first accused, Williams Tweneboah, who was then the deputy security officer of the same company, placed one Bismark Nti, a newly employed security man, instead of two officers to guide the Assin Nduaso site where the excavator in question and other machines were kept on May 28, 2023, the day of the incident.
Police investigation revealed that the first accused, Williams Tweneboah, and the second accused, Godfred Amoh, both employees of the same company, had a telephone conversation on May 27, 2023, to allegedly steal the said excavator.
According to information, Godfred Amoh went to hide in the bust at about 9:30 PM around the site until 11:30 PM the same night when he tied the hands and legs of the security man, Bismark Nti before a low bed truck arrived at the scene where the missing excavator was taken and moved to the Kumasi direction of the road.
The police arrested the two accused persons, and they confirmed in their caution statements their respective roles in the stolen machine.
Mr Tweneboah confirmed that his former colleague, Mark Baidoo Junior, told him the excavator was hidden in the Jacobu forest but did not know the exact location.
The two accused persons, brought before the Assin Nsuaem/Kyekyewere Circuit Court presided over by Her Honor Dorinda Smith Arthur, pleaded guilty to the charge against them.
The two accused persons have since been remanded into police custody to re-appear in court on July 13, 2023.
