More than four hundred prepaid meters have been reported stolen within the Anyaa West electoral area located in the Greater Accra Region.
Michael Acquah, the Assembly Member representing the Anyaa West electoral area, disclosed to Rainbow Accra the alarming increase in theft activities that have afflicted the community in recent weeks.
He expressed frustration over the situation, explaining that despite having reported the incidents to both the Electricity Company of Ghana and the local police, no substantial action has been taken to address this unfortunate issue, which continues to persist.
“This started gradually, like four months ago, but now the situation has gotten out of hand. They have been stealing the metres in the area, and sometimes you are in your room at night and the light will go off, and when you go out and check, you will see that your metre is gone.”
He added that “we suspect that ECG has something to do with this because once the metre has been registered in a particular area, they should be able to see if it is running in other areas because we have reported the situation to them and they know what is happening, but we haven’t heard anything from them.”
He added that because their roads are poor, the police have refused to assist them, so the young people in the community have formed a committee to help control the situation.
“Nobody has been arrested yet, even though we have reported the issue to the police. So we have formed our own committees to deal with the issue because the police told us that our roads are bad and, as such, their cars can’t operate on them.”