{"id":403354,"date":"2018-02-22T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403354"},"modified":"2018-02-22T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T07:34:04","slug":"18-year-old-cable-thief-jailed-16-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/18-year-old-cable-thief-jailed-16-months\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old cable thief jailed 16 months"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Agona Swedru District Court in the Central Region, has sentenced an 18-year-old underground electrical cable thief, Sylvester Asare, to sixteen months imprisonment.<\/p>\n
He was caught by residents at Otabilkrom, a suburb of Agona Swedru in the Central Region, on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at dawn, while trying to bolt with stolen cables belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana [ECG].<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”oHFyodlbUZC0onUZh3q4gj4Aa0d3FqdC”]The ECG indicated that Sylvester Asare stole an unenergized cable of 3\u00d7185mm\u00b2 in size, which was about 5 metres long.<\/p>\n
According to some residents who handed him to the police, the suspect is a coconut seller, but is also noted for such unscrupulous acts.<\/p>\n
The court, presided over by His Lordship Isaac Apeatu, last Wednesday\u00a0found the suspect guilty and sentenced him to sixteen months in jail.<\/p>\n
The Agona Swedru District of the ECG has been battling high operational cost over the years, and has attributed the situation partly to massive cable theft.<\/p>\n
The District Manager of the ECG, Ahmed Kwesi Adams, warned that the sentence should serve as a deterrent to other criminals in the area, reiterating that the company is putting measures in place to prevent such theft incidents from occurring.<\/p>\n
He also pleaded that \u201cresidents in our various communities should be vigilant in order to protect assets belonging to the state and other institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n
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By: Joseph Ackon Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Agona Swedru District Court in the Central Region, has sentenced an 18-year-old underground electrical cable thief, Sylvester Asare, to sixteen months imprisonment. He was caught by residents at Otabilkrom, a suburb of Agona Swedru in the Central Region, on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at dawn, while trying to bolt with stolen cables belonging to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[16400,332,3],"yoast_head":"\n