Four security guards charged with stealing

Four security guards on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with conspiracy and stealing 47 pieces of iron rods worth 10 million cedis, belonging to the China International Water Company, contractors of the Odaw drainage project.

The four, Seth Amparbeng, Stephen Prah, Peter Jagri, and Maxwell Anokorang, all employees of Westec Security Company, pleaded not guilty.

In the dock with them were, Muda Mohammed, a scrap dealer, Charles Acheampong, unemployed and Kennedy Twum, a trader who also pleaded not guilty to the same charges.

The seven were remanded in prison custody to reappear on August 3.

Police Chief Inspector Benedicta Akolgo told the tribunal chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yeboah that following a series of thefts of construction materials at the main yard and project site near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, police were asked to intensify patrol.

On July 20, the Police arrested Mohammed, Acheampong and Anokorang while conveying 47 pieces of iron rods on a truck from the company's main yard.

When they were interrogated, they said the four security guards who were on duty permitted them to steal them.