{"id":155351,"date":"2015-09-28T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155351"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:17:54","slug":"ecg-arrests-man-for-illegally-tapping-power-from-mps-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=155351","title":{"rendered":"ECG arrests man for illegally tapping power from MP\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta Region has arrested Yao Abielekpor, a caretaker of the residence of Mr Clement Kofi Humado, Member of Parliament (MP) for Anlo, for allegedly diverting power from the MP\u2019s residence to power a water pump to irrigate his (Abielekpor\u2019s) vegetable farm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;y5c4AzWYGZkaJAUmP9CRIA76HRxIwaWC&#8221;]The company also arrested three other domestic power users for illegal connection of power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials of ECG said Abielekpor\u2019s diversion did not go through a meter, indicating that Abielekpor was using the power for free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Richard Bavor, Regional Head of Loss Control Unit, ECG said aside a surcharge of GHC2,345.52, Abielekpor would be prosecuted for stealing power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Abielekpor was arrested by the Company for a similar offence some months ago and warned after he was made to pay for the stolen power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Joseph Forson, Regional Manager, ECG, said the monitoring exercise was being roped into the routine operations of the Company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta Region has arrested Yao Abielekpor, a caretaker of the residence of Mr Clement Kofi Humado, Member of Parliament (MP) for Anlo, for allegedly diverting power from the MP\u2019s residence to power a water pump to irrigate his (Abielekpor\u2019s) vegetable farm. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;y5c4AzWYGZkaJAUmP9CRIA76HRxIwaWC&#8221;]The company also arrested three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-155351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}