Story: Nana Konadu Agyeman, Koforidua
Luck ran out for a 20-year-old electrician’s apprentice who took advantage of a power outage to steal electrical cables on the premises of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Resource Centre near the Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Council offices in Koforidua when he was electrocuted.
Emmanuel Yeboah, the apprentice, was said to have gone to the area about 1.00 a.m. where he stood on a chair to pull down the cable with a stick to enable him to cut it with a knife.
Unfortunately, at that point the power was restored and he was heard screaming for help. He was later thrown heavily on the floor, hitting his head on a concrete gutter, according to an eyewitness account.
Briefing the Daily Graphic in Koforidua on Wednesday, the New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, DSP John Naami, said Yeboah, who was often seen on the main premises of the Electricity Company of Ghana in Koforidua, had been identified by his mother, a 43-year-old trader.
According to DSP Naami, the police received a report that the body of a young man, aged about 20, suspected to have been electrocuted, had been found on the premises of the GES Resource Centre, after which a team of policemen was sent to convey the body to the morgue.
He said when the police got to the scene, they found Yeboah lying dead with a torch and a knife which he had probably used in the operation lying beside him, while his right hand was still in a glove.
He said an autopsy at the Kyebi Government Hospital showed that Yeboah died of shock resulting from electrocution.
The body has since been released to the family.
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