[ 2016-11-24 ]

ECG recovers GHȼ351,307.71 in stolen power
The Eastern Regional Office of the Electricity
Company of Ghana (ECG) has recovered a total of
GHȼ351,307.51 lost through illegal power
connection between January and October this year.

This followed a special exercise carried out by
the Loss Control Unit of the company.

The power had been stolen through meter tampering,
bypass and unauthorized service connections.

Mr. Michael Baah, the Regional Manager, announced
this at a performance review meeting held in
Koforidua.

He identified illegal power connections,
non-payment of bills by customers and cables theft
as major challenges it had been struggling with.

Added to these were the destruction of electricity
poles through bushfires and land litigation.

He indicated that there had been massive
investment to extend electricity to more
households in the region and said in excess of
10,000 households had been connected with power
across the region, within the year.

Mr. Baah said the company had built US$1.7million
mobile substation at Mpraeso to take care of the
rapid load growth on the Kwahu ridge area and the
Afram Plains.

It was also constructing another substation at
Asamankese to serve about 40,000 customers in
Asamankese, parts of Suhum, Akwatia and Nsawam
districts.

He asked customers to be bold to report staff of
the company who engaged in fraudulent deals.

Source - GNA

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