Stolen ECG equipment recovered in Takoradi

The Western Regional Office of the National Security has revealed a load of electrical materials in an operation undertaken at Kansawurodo, a nearby locality of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The items were found in a quiet corner and an uncompleted building believed to be associated with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

The findings was revealed following an anonymous source and ended with the the seizure of several valuable electrical components. Included in the recovered materials were 46 cable drums, metres, electrical switches, numerous iron angle bars, metre cases and other essential materials regarded as the property of the ECG.

Hashim Torkonu, a National Security operative, who headed the operation while speaking to Channel One News on Monday, April 7, after bringing in two suspects for questioning, disclosed that the state and the locations where the items were found gave rise to suspicion that the items could be component of the ECG’s unaccounted materials.

The stocks here are not the same as the ones that  we discovered at the private dwellings. That one has been the property of a construction company. The only problem we have with him is how those items got inside his house. Secondly, the information he provided was not the list he originally stated, so we are in the initial phase of the investigation.

Hashim Torkonu declared that “The regional security coordinator is going to call Accra immediately and take instructions from them on what they need to do. As of now, nobody has owned up to this. We have spoken to the residents as well; they seem not to know the owner of the goods.”

Evans Lartey, one of the individuals under investigation detained in relation to the items, said he is a certified ECG contractor. He disclosed that “I am a meter supplier, so if the ECG needs meters, they contact the meter suppliers for the suppliers to produce the cable for them. I have a contract with the ECG.”

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