Three Ghanaian nationals and a Chinese have been arrested by the police for their involvement in the manipulation and installation of meters by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Details available indicate that Wisdom Sewlorm, an agent, took possession of the ECG meters for installation.
But his employee, Ernest Afatsawu, interfered with them and sold them to a Chinese plastic manufacturing firm for GH₵1200.
The Chinese manager, identified as Rulian Shan, along with his sales manager, Ali Yakubu, were arrested on Friday, August 2.
Ernest and Wisdom are presently being investigated after being summoned.
The ECG has calculated the financial damage to be over GH₵77,000 for the period between July and August.
Commenting on the arrest, Paul Abariga, the director responsible for investigation, prosecution, and security, said the four individuals would be arraigned on Wednesday.
“There are meters that are being installed in many parts of our operational area and there have been some investigations reported to this directorate that some of the meters that are being installed are tempered with before they are installed so we undertook investigations, and we’ve come to realise that the intel that we’ve gathered, and the reports given to us are certainly true.
“Based on that we got for instance these four people arrested on four. They had a meter that was supposed to be residential and they were using it in a factory to manufacture plastic bowls at Oblogo near Weija.”
“So we want to put all the four together. By the end of the day we would have finished with our investigations on them so that we put them before court tomorrow,” he stated.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
