Scrap dealers

Fifteen switchgears installed in various com­munities by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in Accra, have been vandalised and its parts stolen. According to the Accra East Region ECG General Manager, Bismark Otoo, the vandalisation of the switchgears resulted in the recent occasional power outages in some parts of Accra. He said the destruction of the switchgears are mostly concentrat­ed in Cantonments, Ridge, Osu, Airport and Dzorwulu vicinities. Speaking in an interview with Ghanaian Times in Accra, yesterday, Mr Otoo said the perpetrators of the crime targeted the metallic end-covers of the switchgears, thereby exposing the livewire part of the high voltage…