The Ghana Electricity Company (ECG) is on a warpath to claim money owed to it by government institutions and others.
As a result, the company’s national task force has placed disconnection notifications on the Ministry of Communications, the Economic Organised Crime Office (EOCO), and other institutions, requiring them to clear their debts or risk disconnection.
The Kofi Annan ICT Centre of Excellence, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) are the other institutions.
Debt
The institutions owe ECG more than GH¢8,213,239.42.
The following institutions owe money: Ministry of Communications, GH¢5,080,752.37; UNDP, GH¢558,014.13; NITA, GH¢1,543,113.42; Internal Audit Agency, GH¢545,740.68; Kofi Annan ICT Centre, GH¢208,318.50; and EOCO, GH¢277,300.32.
According to Mary Eshun-Oppong, the ECG Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Accra East Region, the taskforce delivered letters to Accra institutions on Thursday and given them three working days to clear their debts.
She stated that if the institutions did not repay their debts or make major payments within three working days, they would be disconnected from the national grid.
“If by Monday, April 11, 2022, they do not settle their debts, then we have no option but to disconnect them,” she said.
Notices
Ms Eshun-Oppong stated that demand notices had also been filed on the Internal Audit Agency and other organizations, requiring them to settle their debts in order to avoid being disconnected.
She stated that the taskforce planned to visit 29 institutions to seek debt repayment.
They include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the University of Ghana, embassies, and several media outlets, with the team also visiting individuals and commercial entities who owed ECG.
The team, according to the PRO, would also examine the state of ECG meters in customers’ houses in order to catch consumers who had participated in illegal connection.
As a result, she urged users to pay their bills in order to prevent disconnection and to stop indulging in illegal connections.
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SOURCE: GRAPHIC ONLINE
