The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has given customers who have engaged in illegal connections a one-month ultimatum to correct the anomaly or face the full rigorous of the law.
ECG is currently rounding up a nationwide revenue mobilisation exercise to recover payment for all unpaid customer bills amounting to over GHC5.7 billion.
The company has so far recovered over GHC2 billion of the debt as it enters the final day of the exercise.
“Those who are involved in illegal connections, we’re giving you one month head start to correct it because I’m not charging you with bypass, I’m charging you with theft, you’ve stolen,” managing director of ECG, Samuel Mahama told Asaase Breakfast Show.
“At the end of this exercise, we’ll re-evaluate our position. The debts that are collectable, we’re collecting them. We’ll not make anyone shortchange this country,” he told host Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on Wednesday (19 April).
Mahama added “It’s now so important that we finish the ‘Know Your Customer Drive’. We’re going to do this alongside checking for illegal connections.”
Listen to Samuel Mahama in the attached audio clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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