UNPATRIOTIC GHANAIANS STEALING STREETLIGHTS ON ACCRA-TEMA MOTORWAY – Highway Authority Reveals

He also noted that the unknown individuals have also been removing metal covers and underground cables connecting the streetlights, exacerbating the issue.

“Look, a number of people who I put in quote unpatriotic are destroying some of our infrastructural facilities. People deliberately go, take out these things, and destroy them, either they are stealing or taking parts. So it’s not that the streetlights are going off because they have expired and have to go off.

“I had the opportunity to speak to the media on this issue before, especially on the motorway, you wake up one day and all of a sudden, you have more than 10 or 20 streetlights on a line all gone off.

“You ask yourself how is that possible? In all these facilities they communicate amongst themselves, and there are connections. So if you plug out and cut one out, they speak, people are stealing. Not too long ago, I was on the Motorway way and was so saddened.

“Phase two of the motorway, the metal covers and the underground cable have all been cut by who? Ghanaians. These things happen deliberately, we have some unscrupulous persons in our communities,” Mr Wentum lamented.

He advocated for stringent penalties for individuals who steal streetlights and underground cables.

“Enforcement must work, we must work hand in hand and see how we can get people arrested and punished so that it will serve as a deterrent,” he opined.