ECG begins prosecution of ‘power thieves’ today

Posted on August 11, 2022August 11, 2022
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Three persons are expected to be presented before the utilities court – court 9, today, Thursday, August 11, 2022, for committing various illegalities on the use of electricity.

The charges expected to be levelled against them include stealing power and tampering with ECG meters among others.

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) after declaring a month-long moratorium to its customers to voluntarily report faulty meters has resolved to prosecute anyone caught stealing power.

The first three persons will be the test case for this exercise.

The utilities court will begin this maiden trial to whip recalcitrant power thieves in line.

In the first week of the ECG meter audit and visibility exercise, which began on August 1, 2022, the power distributor said it has uncovered over 1000 illegal connections.

Some of those customers have been surcharged, while others will be prosecuted by a team of police investigators.

-Citi

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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