Ashanti West ECG goes after debtors
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ashanti West Region, has commenced an exercise to retrieve monies owed the company by industrial and domestic consumers of electricity.
The exercise is being undertaken in Abuakwa, Adum, Ahinsan, Bibiani, Danyame, Kokoben, Offinso and Suame.
Consequently, the revenue mobilisation teams are visiting households, restaurants, hotels and state institutions to check the integrity of all postpaid and prepaid meters, illegal connections and surcharge customers who steal power.
Speaking to the media, the
General Manager of ECG, Ashanti West Region, Mr Maxwell Dapaah, said the exercise was aimed at enabling the company generate enough revenue.
He said the activities of the revenue mobilisation teams were in accordance with the PURC Regulation LI 2413 (30), which allows the company to disconnect customers who refused to pay their bills within 14 days after receiving the bill.
“We want our customers to know that they have 14 days to pay their current bills or face disconnection as stated in Regulation 30 of PURC Li 2413,” he said.
The ECG General Manager, however, indicated that ECG as a company did not take delight in disconnecting customers adding that “we buy and sell power, hence the more a customer consumes power, the more the company makes money so we don’t take delight in disconnecting customers since we don’t get revenue from unserved power.”
He said disconnection, mostly the last resort, was carried out in order to prevent the customer from accruing more debt and also to enable the company generate more revenue to keep the ECG running.
Mr Dapaah said that the company was reaching out to its debtors through phone calls, announcements and serving some institutions and businesses disconnection notices as part of efforts to engage them before disconnection.
He cautioned the public against obstruction of ECG staff who come to inspect meters.
BY TIMES REPORTER
