[ 2016-05-02 ]

Two ECG workers before court for stealing company items






Two employees of the Electricity Company of Ghana
(ECG) are standing trial at the Accra Circuit
Court for allegedly stealing electrical items
valued at GH¢6,500 belonging to the company.


The accused persons, Celvin Mawusi, a store keeper
and Gregory Xenyo, an electrical technician, are
staff of the ECG, Accra West Regional Office at
Avenor.

The items included two boxes of 12 kilovot 100
amps fuse cut- outs, three boxes of three kilovots
10 amps surge arresters and three boxes of
lighting arresters.

They have been charged with two counts of
conspiracy to steal and stealing.


After both had pleaded not guilty to the two
charges, the court, presided over by Mrs Afi
Agbanu, granted each of them bail in the sum of
GH¢20,000 and one surety who must be a civil
servant.


Facts

Prosecuting, the Manager of the prosecution unit
of the ECG, Mr Paul Assibi Abariga, said the two
were arrested following the vigilance of a
security man at the Accra West Regional Office of
the company.

While manning the company's main gate, Mr Abariga
said the security guard, whose name was given only
as Issifu, at about 4a.m on February 13, 2016,
intercepted a Toyota Land Cruiser with
registration number GT 7321 D loaded with the
items and prevented the occupants from taking the
items out of the company's premises.


Issifu was said to have been suspicious when he
found that the items did not have a waybill to
cover them, as that was the standard procedure for
moving items from the store to the field.


Moreover, the security man claimed the two accused
persons failed to provide any tangible answers
when he questioned them on the items.


After making them unload the items, the security
man was said to have reported the matter to
management of the company.

Arrests

Later, the ECG investigations unit arrested Xenyo
who allegedly admitted the offence but claimed he
had been asked by Mawusi to convey the items out
of the company.

Mawusi was also said to have admitted the offence
when he was arrested later.

Preliminary investigations, according to Mr
Abariga, had established that the two had agreed
the previous day to steal the items which they
would have sold and shared the proceeds.


Investigations established that at about 9:30p.m
the previous day, Mawusi opened the store and the
two of them loaded the items into the vehicle.


Xenyo allegedly parked the vehicle in the yard of
the company and returned at about 4a.m. the next
day to take them out but he was intercepted at the
gate by the security man.

Source - Daily Graphic

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