MoMo Agent Slapped With More Than 2 Years Jail Term After Mistakenly Sending GHC 30,000 Instead Of GHC 3,000 To A Customer

On one of our social media excursions, we chanced upon a sad story of a mobile money vendor.

The story was shared by the Crime Check Foundation on their official social media handle on the popular social media platform, Facebook.

According to the story, the female mobile money agent has been slapped with a two and half years jail term and this is because she mistakenly sent GHC 30,000 instead of GHC 3,000 to a customer.

Read the story below;

“Whiles sending three thousand cedis MoMo for a client, Gifty says she mistakenly sends thirty thousand cedis but found out rather late in the evening when balancing her books. MTN confirms that the recipient has withdrawn the money. All efforts to get him proves futile as he refuses to pick up his calls. A teary Gifty agrees with her poor parents to pay 1000 cedis every month to her boss. Her boss agrees. She pays the exact amount every month for four months to the police, but pays 800 cedis on the 5th month. She says her boss becomes angry and causes her arrest. She claims she couldn’t tell the judge she is paying the money because of the shock of being in court for the first time. She is given a two and a half years sentence and still asked to pay the money to the complainant when she is discharged. Gifty was discharged yesterday after serving her sentence. Though she enrolled on the UCC distance education for undergraduates whiles in prison, she still had tears flowing freely on her cheeks after gaining her freedom. Does she deserve her sentence or there could have been some form of miscarriage of justice?”

Source: www.ghgossip.com