EX-CONVICT STEALS 8 GOATS (MIRROR, OCT 3, PAGE 23)

From Benjamin Xornam Glover, Bongo

A Bongo District Magistrate Court has jailed a 20-year-old ex-convict to 48 months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing eight goats.
Azitariga Nyabire, convicted for a similar offence three years ago, was charged with stealing and unlawful entry. He pleaded guilty to stealing but not guilty for unlawful entry and was convicted on his own plea.
Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Kwashie Azalakor told the court, presided over by Madam Viviane Yamusah, that on September 8, 2009, at about 4:30 am, Nyabire was found with the goats, suspected to have been stolen, at the Kansoe Market Square near Namoo.
This raised suspicion and Nyabire was arrested and handed over to the police.
He said during interrogation Nyabire initially said he was on an endurance exercise from Zorko to the market square, a distance of about five kilometres and denied any offence.
Mr Azalakor said Nyabire had been granted bail at the same court on a similar case.