Police have detained four individuals, comprising three Ghanaians and a Chinese national, for their roles in tampering with and installing meters from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Wisdom Sewlorm, an agent assigned to install ECG meters, saw his employee, Ernest Afatsawu, manipulate the meters and sell them to a Chinese plastic manufacturing company for GH₵1200.
Rulian Shan, the manager of the Chinese company, and his sales manager, Ali Yakubu, were apprehended on Friday, August 2.
Both Ernest and Wisdom are currently under investigation following their summons.
The ECG estimates that the financial loss due to this incident amounts to over GH₵77,000 from July to August.
Paul Abariga, Director of Investigation, Prosecution, and Security, revealed that the four suspects are scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. Additionally, the contract with the implicated ECG contractor will be terminated.
Abariga stated, “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”.