The Ashaiman District Court docket has sentenced Samuel Kpomble, a 25-year-old labourer, to 6 months imprisonment with arduous labour for stealing water meters belonging to the Ghana Water Firm Restricted.
The courtroom presided over by Derrick Parden Eshun convicted Kpomble on his plea of responsible of stealing.
The information of the case acknowledged that the labourer and one different, who’s at present at massive, had been arrested by residents on Monday, August 21, 2024, at Golf Metropolis within the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality at about 1300 hours stealing water meters belonging to GWCL.
He was subsequently handed over to the Golf Metropolis Police and arraigned earlier than the courtroom after investigations.
Meter theft rising
In the meantime, the Tema Regional Communications Supervisor of the GWCL, Sampson Ampah, informed the Ghana Information Company that the area had recorded over 500-meter thefts up to now three months.
Mr Ampah mentioned there have been extracts from the police the place the purchasers reported the incidents and requested a alternative.
He defined that the present meters being put in along with the opposite elements such because the stopcock and security valve had been all plastic.
“We’re, subsequently, interesting to the scrap sellers to desist from shopping for any GWCL meters from any individual,” he mentioned, including that “the problem is alarming and likewise as a result of we’ve got to switch these meters to our prospects at a value to GWCL.”
He appealed to the general public to be vigilant and report any suspicious actions associated to water meter theft to the police.