Farmer Jailed For Defrauding Teacher With Job Offers

The Jasikan Circuit Court has sentenced a 46-year-old farmer, Mohammed Salisu, to five years imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding a teacher with a promise to offer employment opportunities. Salisu pleaded guilty with an explanation, but his answers could not exonerate him of the crime. He was subsequently convicted by the Court presided over by Alfred Kwabena Asiedu. Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Seth Vincent Kpodo told the Court that the complainant was a 47-year-old teacher residing in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North Municipality. He said the convict in May, this year, contacted the complainant and lied that he…