Electrician Arrested For Making Illegal Connections

Accra, (Greater Accra) Oct. 29 The La Police yesterday arrested Samuel Nai Ako, a self-employed electrician who illegally connected electricity to a consumer and posed as a staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). A ECG spokesman told the GNA that the company's guards detected the illegal connections during an inspection tour of a house at La. When the landlady, one Madam Ataa, was questioned, she mentioned the accused as the one who made the connection. Madam Ataa said she and her husband, Mr Kofi Appau, were sharing the same meter from their family house but realized that the bill was too high. They discussed it with Ako who promised to get them a separate meter. She said Ako collected 31,000 cedis as the cost of the meter and gave them an ECG note authorising them to use electricity from the high tension pole temporarily until a meter was installed. Madam Ataa said the note authorised them to pay 4,500 cedis a month to ECG. During interrogation, Ako admitted the offence but said the note was given to him by one ''Seaman'' whom, he claimed, was a former worker of the ECG. Ako is in police custody pending investigations.