Second Generation Chicken Thief Given Pumelled AT Awutu Bereku

29-year-old ex-convict, Eric Arhin, who is the son of a notorious thief in Awutu Bereku in the Central Region, was given the beating of his life Sunday after the pillage of fowls ended him at the wrong side of residents.

A mob of angry townsfolk offloaded the second generation thief of eleven chicken that he had stolen, tied him to an electricity poll and tried to exorcise him of the thieving spirit with blows hooks and punches.

It took the intervention of some town fathers to save the life of the thief whose father is remembered to have similarly pilfered, looted and robbed the neighbourhood.

Even so, by the time he was handed over to the Police, he was almost lifeless.

“The boy stole chickens so we also went after him to tie him and beat him. We did it until the police came. Two patrol men came and we told them that taking him there would not work,” he said.

“They advised us not to take the law into our own hands and insisted he should be taken to the Awutu Bereku police station but we told them if we take him, no charge would be brought against him,” explained Alex Acheampong, one of the village youth who administered the mob justice.

In an interview with Accra based Adom FM he explains that the kleptomaniac who had just finished serving a sentence had it coming.

“The reason why we decided not to give him up to the police is because he’s our fellow neighbour, everybody knows him and I knew his father. His father did the same thing and the boy is following in the father’s footsteps,”

Chief Inspector Stephen Tamakloe, Station Officer at the Awutu Bereku Police station confirmed the incident.

“He is a repeat offender because he has been taken to court for the same crime and the first time he stole 14,” he said. “It seems it is their job to steal chickens.”