The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has begun prosecuting 152 people across the country for illegally connecting to the national power grid.
[contextly_sidebar id=”juif32DYVzTJaxDzLnlI62jKRRrDQ5MW”]According to the ECG, these individuals owe the company in excess of 3.2 million cedis due to their illegal operations.
This was revealed by Nana Atta Forson, the Director of Customer Services at the ECG, at a press briefing in Accra.
He said the victims were smoked out during a special operation they begun in August 2015.
Atta Forson noted that within the period “we have visited about 36,496 custormers. We were going from house to house. We are not sitting in our offices and then conjecturing.”
“After vising, we screen the data to be sure that it is an illegality because they are going to court. So to minimize the extent of litigation, we try to screen to be sure that really there is an illegality. Then the number of illegal collection are identified out of the number screened, then total payment made at a certain point we try to showcase it.”
The director added that usually when court actions are taking against the customers who engage in illegal connections they rush to clear their debt before going to the court.
In a related development, the ECG has cut power supply to a number of institutions including the Koforidua and Kumasi Polytechnics over unpaid bills.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana