In a heartbreaking tale of injustice, two individuals found themselves behind bars over a single bag of charcoal.

Recounting the incident, 36-year-old Baba Iddrisu explained that he had left the forest with two bags of charcoal to sell to a customer.

Unfortunately, he managed to sell only one bag and left the remaining bag in front of a shop while he went to another location.

Upon his return, he was shocked to discover that a woman had unloaded over 100 bags of charcoal in the same area where he had left his single bag.

When he tried to retrieve his bag from among the many, the woman accused him of stealing her charcoal.

At that time, his business partner in the charcoal trade had also come to visit him, and they both ended up at the police station after the woman refused to believe their side of the story..

"So she insisted that we go to the police station. Unfortunately I didn't ask that we count the number of bags of charcoal assembled in front of the chop. So we ended up at the police station. We were interrogated by the officers. But i guess our explanation did not prove our innocence. We could not hire a lawyer to defend us," Baba explained to the police officers including a CID.

Adding that, the CID asked him and his partner to pay an amount a little over GHS600.00 as demanded by the woman who reported them to the police.

"To get my sister to come over and pay the money, I thus asked the officers to lend me their phones so I could call her. I even had some bags of charcoal that I could have sold to help her raise the money, but the officers prevented me from doing so."

Baba said that they were later taken to court, but the legal bickering nevertheless resulted in an 18-month term for each of them.