The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is set to initiate a power disconnection drive labeled "Operation No Free Consumption" starting today, Thursday, February 1.
The operation aims to disconnect electricity services for customers who are utilizing power without fulfilling payment obligations.
During this exercise, ECG field teams will be engaged in updating customer details, including phone numbers and GPS addresses, as well as collecting any outstanding arrears.
Within the exercise, non-payment of arrears will result in disconnections.
This operation, commencing today, is scheduled to conclude on Thursday, February 15, 2024. Laila Abubakar, the External Relations Officer of ECG, has issued a warning, indicating that customers found in violation of non-payment may face prosecution.
“We have done targeted mapping of where these pay points are. And we are going to use the next two weeks to fish out these people who are using electricity without paying anything to us.
“We found them last year and tried to regularise them, and they have gone back to their old ways.
“We now have a new directorate which is the prosecution directorate, which is going to take on a lot of companies and individuals who have refused to stick to the ethos of using power and paying for power.
“For the next 12 months to come, we have various revenue mobilisations that are going to happen,” he said.
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