[ 2015-11-24 ]

Twifu Praso Magistrate Court sentences three for stealing ECG cables
The Twifu Praso Magistrate Court in the Central
Region has sentenced three persons for stealing
cables belonging to the Electricity Company of
Ghana.

The three, according to Prosecutors stole the
aluminum conductors of the ECG, cut them into
pieces and were getting ready for the market when
they were arrested.

The aluminum conductors estimated at a cost of
GH¢860 were stolen from a construction company,
Cornucopia that had won an ECG contract about six
months to extend electrification projects from
Twifu Paaso to Abeka Nkwata.

Yaw Mbroh, 27, Kofi Andoh, 24 and Kofi Kru, 18 who
were employees of the construction company
sub-contracted by the ECG pleaded guilty to the
three counts of stealing-related offences and were
sentenced on their own plea.

The two, Yaw Mbroh and Kofi Andoh were convicted
to serve a six month jail term while 18 year old
Kofi Kru was sentenced to a prison term of five
months.

The Presiding Magistrate, Eric Baah Boateng
expressed his disgust about the phenomenon where
people have reckless disregard for state assets.
“I have given them lesser sentences because
they were first time offenders. I want to use this
as a deterrent not only for these three persons
but to everybody.”

In a statement shortly after the conviction, the
Regional PRO of ECG, Isaac Nurris Ainooson
bemoaned how people have developed the penchant of
tampering with the assets of the Electricity
Company of Ghana.

“We are a serious company and we are into a
serious business. We are saddled with financial
difficulties and thus wouldn’t countenance
any form of tampering with our equipment or our
installations. We now have prosecutorial powers
and will not hesitate to prosecute anyone found
culpable. All we have is for the advancement of
the entire country.”

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