The Accra West Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana says it will leave no stone unturned until all illegal power connections become a thing of the past.
In order to achieve this, the ECG Accra West Region had intensified its crack down on unauthorised power supply at customer premises and imposing hefty fines on perpetrators couple with prosecutions to serve as deterrent to others.
Consequently, the Acting Accra West Region Manager of the ECG, Mr Emmanuel Ankrah, announced that that special task teams had been set up and were on a daily basis moving into customer premises to audit the state of installed meters and other electrical connections in their facilities.
In its pilot phase from September to December last year, he indicated that the region recovered more than GH¢7.4 million from 374 customers arrested for engaging in various forms of illegalities, constituting a total of 3.3 gigawatts of power theft.
