{"id":93514,"date":"2015-02-22T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=93514"},"modified":"2015-02-23T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T17:52:51","slug":"two-arrested-for-stealing-ecg-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=93514","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for stealing ECG cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing high-tension and underground cables belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).<\/p>\n<p>Sumana Gariba, 25, a Nigerian and Alhassan Mukaila, 22, a Malian were arrested seperately \u00a0on Friday by the Afienya District Police Command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1.1978454.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87845\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1.1978454.jpg\" alt=\"ecg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kl2datLX2CmrmReGte0hDj8adTxKrCDa&#8221;]\u00a0The Dodowa District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr Kwesi Ofori, told the Daily Graphic that the suspects were arrested through the collaboration of the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>He said Gariba was arrested\u00a0 at Afienya with ECG underground cables, known as armoured cables, worth millions of Ghana cedis.<\/p>\n<p>He said residents saw the suspect cutting the long armoured cables which had been laid by some ECG workers, into smaller pieces and putting them on a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>They immediately alerted the police patrol team, resulting in the arrest of Gariba.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect, Mr Ofori said, was found at Mobole, near Afienya, loading high-tension cables into a tricycle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing high-tension and underground cables belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Sumana Gariba, 25, a Nigerian and Alhassan Mukaila, 22, a Malian were arrested seperately \u00a0on Friday by the Afienya District Police Command. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kl2datLX2CmrmReGte0hDj8adTxKrCDa&#8221;]\u00a0The Dodowa District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr Kwesi Ofori, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[2],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-93514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93514","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}