Odumase-Krobo police has detained an aspiring assembly member for the Mampong Electoral Area in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region, for allegedly engaging in illegal power connection.
According to sources, Emmanuel Tetteh, a key member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) communications team in Lower Manya Krobo, reconnected power to his sachet water factory in Nuaso-Newtown, after the ECG team had previously disconnected it.
A team from the Power Distribution Company on Monday, March 27, 2023, disconnected the meter of Emmanuel Tetteh for by-passing. However, the leading member of the NPP communications team in Lower Manya Krobo, according to sources, unlawfully rewired power to his sachet water factory located at Nuaso-Newtown, following its earlier disconnection.
Moreover, he also failed to appear at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) district office, after the Company summoned him. After He rejoined the wires to his factory criminally, his actions led to his arrest and detention yesterday April 4, 2023, when the team together with the police, went to his area for monitoring.
Engineers from ECG detached the illegal meter from his facility and removed other cables linking power to his facility, before escorting him into a pickup vehicle, which then transported him to the police station.
ECG Removes Power To Clienteles Over Unlawful Connection
The Electricity Company of Ghana from the Tema branch disconnected power to a total of 310 customers, for engaging in illegal connections and also piling up debt.
Engineers of ECG between March 20 to March 31, visited some 2,344 customers comprising individuals, small-scale and large-scale enterprises in the Tema operational area, as part of its nationwide revenue mobilization drive to recover debts owed the company.
The Public Relations Officer of the power distribution company for the Tema branch, Sakyiwaa Mensah, giving an update on the mobilization exercise in the Tema region, indicated that customers’ reluctance to give access to their metres to engineers of ECG continues to remain a major challenge in the mobilization exercise.
“Some of the customers try to prevent us from accessing the meters. We would like to remind our customers that as much as possible, the meters have to be made available to ECG staff whenever necessary.”
Sakyiwaa Mensah
ECG began an exercise to recover all debt owed by state owned institutions and private companies. The exercise, which took place in the country supervised by regional branch managers and officials from the company, visited customers like Volta Serene, Abutia Stone Quarry, UHAS, HTU, KFC, Ghana’s Parliament house, and the Ministry of Energy, amongst others who owed electricity bills.
The company disconnected KFC for owing GH¢68,000, Ho Airport for owing GH¢63,000, GRA Office for owing GH¢55,000, CEPS training academy for owing GH¢80,000 and Ho Technical University for owing GH¢402,000. Parliament house, however, paid some of its debt to avoid disconnection.
ECG revealed that all meters currently in the system will be harmonized, in order to make it easy for customers to purchase prepaid credits from a singular App.
Moreover, the Electricity Company of Ghana released a load management schedule from Thursday, March 30 to Friday, April 7, between 6pm and 11pm. This is due to a power generation shortfall, as a result of maintenance works being carried out by the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) at Atuabo.
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