An electrician, who is also a worker at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for forging an ECG prepaid recharge card and set-up form.
The convict, Mohammed Musah, and his accomplice, whose identity was given only as Alex, currently at large, worked together at the BXC Company, a third-party company of the ECG.
Musah, who appeared before the Chief Justice Court, presided over by Mr Wolanyo Kotoku, pleaded guilty to a charge of falsifying the set-up document and the ECG prepaid meter, which he used to defraud a woman at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region.
He was convicted on his own plea.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy to interfere with an ECG distribution system of power and stealing a single-phase meter.
The court adjourned hearing on the two counts to January 23, 2016.
Facts of case
Prosecuting, the manager in charge of prosecutions at the ECG, Mr Paul Assibi Abariga, told the court that in November 2015, the woman (name withheld) needed a meter and approached Alex, who introduced himself as an ECG worker.
On November 4, 2015, Alex went to the woman’s house with Musa to fix a single-phase meter at a cost of GH¢350 and gave her a prepaid recharge card and a set-up form.
After three weeks when the woman went to the ECG Bortianor office to recharge her card, she was told that the meter was not registered.
She then led the police to arrest Musah, who admitted the offences in his statement to the police and mentioned Alex as the one who had supplied the meter while he produced the set-up form.
Mr Abariga told the court that Musah, however, refused to lead the police to arrest his accomplice and also failed to disclose how he came by the set-up form.
In another development, a woman identified as Kate Addoquaye, a trader, was fined GH¢360 for stealing power to her house at La in Accra.
Kate pleaded guilty to the charge of by-passing the ECG meter such that it could not read the power consumed which was estimated at GH¢793.45.
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