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Two ECG workers jailed for stealing transformers

Eric Yaw Darko and Perfect Ama Agbo after they had been sentenced by the court. BELOW: Some of the transformers that were retrieved.
Two workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for each count for stealing 83 transformers from the company’s warehouse.
The two convicts, Eric Yaw Darko, a driver, and Perfect Ama Agbo, an electrical foreman, are said to have acted together with a security man of the ECG, identified as Samuel Kofi Frimpong, who is currently at large.
The three, who are with the ECG Material Division in Tema, stole the transformers from the warehouse and sold them to individuals.

Agbo, the electrical foreman, is said to have defaced the transformers by removing the name plate and other identification marks on them before selling them.

They were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit crime and stealing.
At the end of the trial, the Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Ms Ellen Amoah, found them guilty after the prosecution had been able to make a case against them.
They sentences are to run concurrently.

Facts of the case 

Prosecuting, the Head of Prosecutions at the ECG, Mr Paul Assibi Abariga, said the 83 Tusco transformers were detected missing from the warehouse of the Tema Materials Division during a stock-taking exercise.
During the exercise, he said, it was found that the transformers had been stolen from the warehouse between January 2013 and April 1, 2014.

When the case was reported to the police, he said, investigations revealed that some ECG workers were offering ECG transformers for sale to private individuals.

The police, he said, mounted surveillance, leading to the arrest of a man (name withheld) at the Trade Fair area, La in Accra.
The man later served as a witness in the case.

Arrest  

Mr Abariga said the witness was arrested with a transformer without any inscriptions but it was suspected to be an ECG transformer.

When the witness was questioned about the transformer, he said it was given to him by his sister, whom he identified as Perfect Ama Agbo, to be sold to a buyer she had already spoken to by phone.
A document in respect of another transformer which was also in the possession of the witness was also retrieved.

The court heard that the witness led the police to a house at Tsado, near the Trade Fair site, where another Tusco transformer was found without a serial number and name plates.

Subsequently, Mr Abariga said, Darko and Perfect were arrested after investigations had established that they were behind the missing transformers, but Frimpong, who was in charge of the Hi-Fabric Warehouse from where the transformers were stolen, escaped arrest.

Further police intelligence gathered, he said, revealed that four of the transformers were delivered to an individual at Dansoman by Frimpong.

Seven of the transformers, he said, had since been retrieved.

Source: Graphiconline.com

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