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At the Western region’s Ichaban water treatment facility, a suspected cable thief was detained.
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) said in a statement on Monday that Baba Salihu, 17, was apprehended at the station last Saturday, September 23, 2023.
In the old laboratory, Mr. Solomon Kuwornu, a Senior Technical Assistant at the Station, noticed an odd noise at around 10:00 on Saturday. He decided to investigate what might be going on there.
He followed the noise to the lab ceiling, assuming it was reptiles making the noise, only to discover Salihu hiding on the ceiling in a supine position.
The GWCL claimed that when Mr. Kuwornu heard the noise, he had already eliminated all of the wires in the walls and was working on deleting those on the ceiling. After then, he was detained and taken to the Inchaban police station.
According to the Water Company, cable thieves have been causing problems at the Inchaban Water Treatment Plant since October 2022.
“Thieves have stolen several meters of cables supplying power to critical installations at the Treatment Plant. In October 2022, the cables supplying power to the submersible pump at the intake of the plant were stolen rendering the pump useless. The submersible pump is used during the dry season when the water level in the dam goes down such that water cannot flow by gravity to the treatment plant.”
“ Due to this cable theft, the Station was unable to engage this special device during the dry season, causing the plant to nearly shut down in March 2023. In July 2023, the entire electric cables in the late Station Manager’s bungalow were stolen with the 25mm service cables that draw power from the external pole to the house. All the electrical fittings in the bungalow have also been stolen,” the statement stated.
It said that recently, cables at the trainees’ quarters were equally removed by these miscreants costing the company huge sums of money to replace them.
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