{"id":357638,"date":"2017-09-28T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357638"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:09:59","slug":"ecg-recovers-gh%c2%a223m-from-illegal-connection-culprits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/ecg-recovers-gh%c2%a223m-from-illegal-connection-culprits\/","title":{"rendered":"ECG recovers\u00a0GH\u00a223m from illegal connection culprits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), says it is cracking down on\u00a0customers who have illegally connected their structures to the national power grid.<\/p>\n<p>The acting Managing Director of ECG, Ing. Boakye Appiah, said that a programme had been initiated by the company which involved routine visits to the premises of customers\u00a0in order to ensure nothing untoward was going on.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;MfOvRfB7W2eyQtDdYFAkSxjUXBRbeR7B&#8221;]According to him, the programme had so far led to the recovery of about 23 million cedis since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the recovery of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/05\/tema-ecg-steps-up-efforts-to-curb-losses-from-illegal-connections\/\">GHc 2.8 million in Tema<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/20\/ecg-recovers-ghc-450000-from-illegal-connections-in-eastern-region\/\"><strong>GHC 450.000 in the Eastern Region<\/strong><\/a><\/span> last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have launched what we call a revenue protection programme which requires that we visit customers\u2019 premises where we sweep and look at the integrity of the wiring, and the meters and their performance; and if there has been any infractions on our networks, prosecution is done\u2026We have been able to recover about 23 million Ghana cedis so far,\u201d he said in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the\u00a08th Engineers&#8217; Conference,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boakye Appiah added that, the checks would also see to it that broken meters are replaced<strong>, <\/strong>ensuring that customers pay the full cost of the power they consume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf meters are faulty, they are replaced so that they can register the correct consumption of the customer, and if there are any anomalies that we detect, we also sit with the customers and correct them,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He, Mr. Boakye Appiah, insisted that massive strides have been made since the inception of the programme in 2016, and that it had been expanded to areas outside the capital, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve been implementing it since 2016, but we\u2019ve intensified the activities in 2017. 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