{"id":118946,"date":"2015-05-25T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=118946"},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:00:14","slug":"yvonne-nelsons-electricity-not-disconnected-estate-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=118946","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Nelson&#8217;s electricity not disconnected &#8211; Estate company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redrow Developments Limited has dismissed media reports indicating that one of its residents, actress Yvonne Nelson has had her power supply disconnected over an illegal connection.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Chief Executive Office of the company, Christopher Aryeetey clarified that Ms Nelson\u2019s house is legal connected.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;asozqAYYJVW6k9e6692Qzd7XqLjlWoRZ&#8221;]\u201cElectricity supply to our client, Yvonne Nelson, who is a resident and the focus of the media, has not been disconnected as reported. We would like to further add that her property is properly metered and therefore has legal connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company also denied reports that the entire Redrow Estates has had its electricity supply disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports on Sunday indicated that Yvonne Nelson, who had recently led <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/16\/thousands-attend-dumsor-vigil\/#sthash.EpZ6CRos.vtw1Q7fp.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">a massive vigil in Accra<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to protest the three-year power crisis in the country had had her electricity disconnected after officials of the\u00a0Electricity Company of Ghana discovered that she had illegally connected electricity to her house.<\/p>\n<p>The reports also indicated that the entire estate had had its electricity supply disconnected since all the houses had illegal connections.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Aryeetey in the statement admitted that some houses had illegal electricity connection and thus had their power disconnected by the ECG.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the illegality happened because his outfit sub-contracted the connection and installation of electricity to the estate to an electrical firm which failed to divulge information on some constraints they were facing in undertaking the contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a company, we do not condone the illegal use of electricity. Unfortunately, the contractor misinformed management on the status of the availability of meters from ECG and their [ECG] process for connection of electricity as a temporary measure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon an inspection by the officials of ECG, they drew our attention to the illegal connections of 12 houses and further issued penalties, part of which has been paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Aryeetey mentioned that arrangements are underway with the support of ECG to install meters to the affected houses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redrow Developments Limited has dismissed media reports indicating that one of its residents, actress Yvonne Nelson has had her power supply disconnected over an illegal connection. A statement signed by the Chief Executive Office of the company, Christopher Aryeetey clarified that Ms Nelson\u2019s house is legal connected. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;asozqAYYJVW6k9e6692Qzd7XqLjlWoRZ&#8221;]\u201cElectricity supply to our client, Yvonne Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":114099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[38,6],"class_list":["post-118946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}