An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced an electrical technician to five years' imprisonment for stealing cables and copper worth GH₵182,387.93 from Gridco Company Limited.
The court found John Edem Aggorsu, 34, guilty of theft at the Achimota Substation in Accra.
His accomplice, Daniel Agyei, a security officer who disabled the CCTV system to facilitate the theft, had earlier been convicted and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.
Agyei pleaded guilty to abetment of crime and was convicted on his own plea by the presiding judge, Mr.