From Vincent Amenuveve, Tamale
WHEN a taxi driver at Choggu Manayilli, a suburb of Tamale, quarrelled with his girlfriend for allegedly bringing home another man, little did he know that his taxi cab would pay dearly for that confrontation as the girlfriend smashed the windscreen of the vehicle.
For her lawlessness, the Tamale District Court, presided over by a Magistrate, Gabriel Mate-Teye, sentenced Jezawu Mohammed, a trader at Gurugu in Tamale, to a fine of GH¢600 or in default serve six months imprisonment in hard labour.
The convict, however, pleaded guilty to the charge of causing unlawful damage.
According to the prosecution, at about 9:00 p.m. on March 21, 2010, Shaibu Mohammed, the taxi driver visited Jezawu at her house but did not meet her.
After waiting for her for sometime, Jezawu arrived home with another man.
The prosecution stated that the situation brought about a quarrel between Mohammed and Jezawu after the man at the centre of the controversy left.
Mohammed’s taxi developed a mechanical fault after the quarrel and so he could not drive the vehicle back home.
The prosecution explained that Mohammed, therefore, parked the vehicle behind the house of the convict.
When Mohammed left, the convict who was still annoyed because she was rebuked by Mohammed vented that anger on his taxi cab and smashed both the front and rear windscreens of the vehicle with a stone, damaging them in the process.
The prosecution said the convict also broke the inner glasses in all the doors of the vehicle.
The prosecution continued that when Mohammed returned the following day with his mechanic to repair the fault on the vehicle, the convict, still angered by the boyfriend’s action, went to them and started boasting that she had damaged the vehicle.
The matter was reported to the police and the convict was arrested and after investigations, she was charged with the offence.
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