Napo clashes with Krobos over Akosombo - www.asempanews.com

Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has explained why no group of people in the country can refuse to pay their electricity bills but expect to be supplied with the utility.

He also addressed a perennial underlying factor for which some people in the area have protested against ECG, the subject of a so-called agreement with the Nkrumah government that Krobos should not pay for electricity for some five decades, with the reason being that the Akosombo Dam is on their land.

“No one can claim that they will not pay their electricity bill

They have no legitimate claim for refusing to pay their electricity bills.

“They (sections of Krobo youth) claim Kwame Nkrumah said 50 years after Akosombo, they shouldn’t pay for electricity, that claim is illegitimate,” the Minister stressed.

Some youth groups in the Krobo areas have often cited the agreement that supposedly exempts them from paying for electricity during protests over the years.

The MoU, the youth claim, was signed after the construction of the Akosombo Dam and it contained a clause that exempted Krobo lands and other areas within 27 miles radius of the dam from paying electricity bills, a 2017 Graphic Online report noted.