Five Years For Stealing Meter

Kwadwo Boakye



A 19-Year-old unemployed boy, Kwadwo Boakye, a resident of Sunyani Area One, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in hard labour by a Fiapre Circuit Court presided over by Benjamin Yaw Osei.

He was sentenced for causing unlawful damage and stealing a Ghana Water Works reading meter gadget.

Presenting the facts of the case, the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Lydia Acheampong, said the complainant is a mason who lives at the same residence with the accused person.

On 17th July, 2010, at about 4:30am, the complainant went to his pipe stand to fetch some water but upon discovering that the taps were not flowing, decided to go back to the house to wait for the taps to flow.

Suddenly, around 5:00am, the complainant heard people shouting that his meter was damaged and the water was gushing out.

Upon hearing this, he quickly rushed out only to find out that the reading meter gadget which was connected to the standing pipe had been cut and stolen.

Upon further investigation, it came to the complainant’s notice that an eye witness had seen Kwadwo Boakye stealing the gadget at around 4am that fateful day.

The prosecutor said the accused, knowing what he had done, had gone into hiding until 10th September 2010, when he was spotted in town and was subsequently arrested and handed over to the police for further investigations.

According to the prosecutor, during police interrogation, the accused person admitted the offence and was thus sentenced.

The mother of the convict who spoke to DAILY GUIDE after the son was sentenced said her son was a psychiatric patient who was under treatment at the hospital.

By Vivianna Mensah, Fiapre