{"id":200606,"date":"2025-06-21T02:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ecg-equipment-thief-jailed-five-years\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:14:54","slug":"ghana-ecg-equipment-thief-jailed-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ecg-equipment-thief-jailed-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: ECG Equipment Thief Jailed Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced Asimah Delali, a rubbish collector, to five years in prison for stealing property belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Delali pleaded guilty to charges of &#8220;interfering with supplier distribution system and stealing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The presiding judge, Mr Samuel Bright Acquah, noted it was Delali&#8217;s third offence of this nature and handed down an enhanced sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The court heard that on June 8, 2025, Delali stole an Electrical Distribution Pillar door valued&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200514.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced Asimah Delali, a rubbish collector, to five years in prison for stealing property belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Delali pleaded guilty to charges of &#8220;interfering with supplier distribution system and stealing.&#8221; The presiding judge, Mr Samuel Bright Acquah, noted it was Delali&#8217;s third offence of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7314,12534,4508,4509,5696,257,254,30845,5114],"class_list":["post-200606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ecg","tag-equipment","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thief","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}