Techiman Metropolis player arrested for absconding with his landlord’s cash

Athletics News of Friday, 5 February 2021

Resource: Ghana Guardian

2021-02-05

There was complete drama in Berekum on Wednesday all through a National Division A person League match amongst Berekum Arsenal and Techiman Town.

The football match ended 1- on favour of the household facet Berekum Arsenal but the genuine drama happened immediately after the recreation experienced ended.

A player of Techiman Metropolis by name Hayford Adu Poku was immediately accosted by the Law enforcement in Berekum straight away soon after the closing whistle.

His alleged crime is that he has absconded for about two years now with revenue belonging to his previous landlord, Yaw Nsiah.

In accordance to the landlord, Yaw Nsiah, he used to are living with the footballer in the same house as his tenant and a relative abrod remitted some sum of GHC3,000 to him but he did not have a cellular dollars account and so told his then tenant Hayford Adu Poku whom he is incredibly great friends with to obtain the revenue on his cellular phone which he had registered for cellular income.

The income was duly sent and the footballer acknowledged obtaining the income but handful of days later he vanished into skinny air from the dwelling and changed his cellphone selection.

All makes an attempt to trace him had proved futile right up until Wednesday when the landlord went to observe the Division One League recreation amongst Berekum Arsenal and Techiman Metropolitan areas.

When the teams were warming up, he spotted Hayford Adu Poku and rapidly went to lodge a complaint at the Law enforcement station.

So at the station he was instructed to wait around until the closing whistle just after which the said player will be arrested as the Law enforcement lay ambush.

Instantly right after the game, Hayford Adu Poku of Techiman Cities was quickly apprehended and sent to the Law enforcement station where by he admitted the criminal offense but officers of his club ended up in a position to implement for a Law enforcement enquiry bail for him.