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Magistrate Shaka Kamara of Kenema Magistrate Court No.1 has committed to High Court Hassan Diawo of Milton Margai Layout in Kenema for shop breaking and larceny.
The accused Hassan Diawo was charged to court for shop breaking and larceny contrary to Section 26 (1) of the Larceny Act of 1916.
According to the particulars of offence, it was alleged that the accused, Hassan Diawoh, on Thursday, 6th June 2024 at No.59 Sombo Street in Kenema, Nongowa Chiefdom, Kenema Judicial District in the Eastern province, broke and entered into a Carpenter workshop of Lansana Koroma and stole one grinding machine valued four thousand New Leones (NLe 4,000), five 2x2x14 boards valued Seven Hundred and Fifty New Leones (750) and a fiscal sum of three thousand New Leones (NLe 3000) all to the total sum of seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty New Leones (NLe 7,750) properties of Lansana Koroma.
The accused was Committed to High Court for further trial. The matter was prosecuted by Police Inspector, Alphan Samuel Musa, attached to the Legal and Justice Support Department at the Kenema Police Station.
I think it should have been better, for the Bio administration, to have set a kind of smaller court system, that could trail some of these petty crimes, than to let someone go to prison for some of those miserable thievery.
That person will have to go and mix with hard-core criminals, who will graduate him to their ranks, and never afraid of any crime.
Instead of them to be making law of marriage. Which everywhere is concent. I was reading, about marriage in the USA. There are states, which marriage age is 12yrs, 14, even less.
But a small court that will allow those that will steal some amount that may be out of poverty, most likely to get something to eat. Let their punishment be like community work, or some kind of drill. Every resources they have wasted on those their marriage, will not solve anything.