{"id":460967,"date":"2018-02-02T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/electrician-jailed-5-years-for-tampering-with-prepaid-meters\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:40:53","slug":"electrician-jailed-5-years-for-tampering-with-prepaid-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/electrician-jailed-5-years-for-tampering-with-prepaid-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrician jailed 5 years for tampering with prepaid meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Crime &amp; Punishment of Friday,  2 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/15220365.295.jpg\" alt=\"Electrician Sober\" title=\"Electrician Sober\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mohammed was sentenced after he failed to pay a fine of GHC 8,400<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517614853_564_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A 37 year old Mohammed Musah a self styled electrician, who tampered with a prepaid meter belonging to Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Kumasi Circuit Court 4.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to intentionally interfering or knowingly allowing interference with ECG distribution system of power.<\/p>\n<p>The court presided over by His Honor Ekow John Mensah convicted Mohammed on his own plea.<\/p>\n<p>The court sentenced Mohammed Musah 5 years imprisonment after he failed to pay a fine of GH\u00a28400.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Erasmus Baidoo, Ashanti Regional Public Relations Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) speaking in an interview with Abusua FM\u2019s Osei Kwadwo warned Ghanaians especially electricians to refrain from tempering Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) prepaid meters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we are working with the Police and we will make sure that those tempering Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) prepaid meters are arrested and face the law. We are serious about this fight and we will fight till we win\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile three persons have been arrested for pretending to be ECG staff at Kyerekrom in the Ashanti region.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 updated by: 4 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime &amp; Punishment of Friday, 2 February 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-02 Mohammed was sentenced after he failed to pay a fine of GHC 8,400 A 37 year old Mohammed Musah a self styled electrician, who tampered with a prepaid meter belonging to Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has been sentenced to five years imprisonment by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}