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Man, 54, Arrested For Illegal Meter Installation; 7 Fake Meters Seized
07 Apr

Man, 54, Arrested For Illegal Meter Installation; 7 Fake Meters Seized

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Police in Abuakwa with support from the Revenue Protection Unit of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have arrested a 54-year-old man, John Fofie, for installing fake meters for some people in Kunsu in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region. He has been accused of replacing people’s post-paid meters which has debt on them with fake meters in the community. According to sources, ECG officials had installed new postpaid meters in the home of the affected people but routine checks by officers uncovered that the culprit had replaced the meters with fake ones. This came to light when…
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A/R: ECG Disconnects Power To Amansie South DCE’s Residence
07 Apr

A/R: ECG Disconnects Power To Amansie South DCE’s Residence

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The Ashanti Regional Office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as part of its efforts to recover huge public debt has disconnected power supply to the Amansie South District Chief Executive’s official residence at Manso Adubia in the Ashanti Region. About four floodlights were on when the ECG taskforce arrived at the place. The residence of the Amansie South DCE , Clement Opoku, was among several private homes and public institutions disconnected during the exercise in Amansie South District. Also disconnected during the operation included some bungalows of the Amansie South District Assembly, Office of the Immigration Service in the district,…
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GRA Must Learn From ECG And Also Go Round To Collect Property Tax – AGI
06 Apr

GRA Must Learn From ECG And Also Go Round To Collect Property Tax – AGI

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Executive Member of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Tsonam Akpeloo has asked the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to follow the example of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) that is going round to collect its debts, to also do the same and collect property tax. Tsonam Akpeloo indicated that property tax is one of the areas where the government can generate revenue, not only through taxing businesses. Speaking on the Ghana Tonight show on TV3 Wednesday, April 5 in connection with the three revenue bills – Excise Duty, Growth and Sustainability Levy and Income Amendment Bills – that have been approved by Parliament,…
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ECG Disconnects 310 Clients Over Illegal Connection
04 Apr

ECG Disconnects 310 Clients Over Illegal Connection

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The Tema Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has disconnected power supply to 310 consumers for owing and engaging in illegal connections. As part of measures to increases revenue collections and to recover debts owed the power supply company, engineers from the Electricity Company of Ghana from Monday, March 20 to Friday, March 31 visited 2,344 customers to re-calibrate electric meters and correct illegal electrical connections. Speaking on behalf of the Tema Region of ECG, Sakyiwaa Mensah, the Public Relations Officer of ECG in an interaction with the media explained that, the customers’ reluctance to give access of…
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ECG Staff, Vendors Busted Over Alleged GH¢2.1 Million Theft Granted Bail
03 Apr

ECG Staff, Vendors Busted Over Alleged GH¢2.1 Million Theft Granted Bail

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Ten persons, including staff of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), accused of stealing GH¢2,143,270 being proceeds of pre-paid credit, have been granted bail. The High Court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, admitted Ali Nasiru Shaibu, a Computer Programmer at the ICT Department, ECG, to bail in the sum of GHS 4 million with two sureties to be justified. Nine others were also admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢300,000 with one surety each to be justified. They are Grace Gardiner, Chief Supervising Cashier, ECG, Kasoa, Anthony D.K Quaye and Ibrahim Baba Adamu, both technicians at Kasoa ECG office.…
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Volta ECG Mobilises GH¢12.5m Within One Week Of Revenue Mobilisation
03 Apr

Volta ECG Mobilises GH¢12.5m Within One Week Of Revenue Mobilisation

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Volta Regional Directorate of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has mobilised GH¢12.5 million from its debtors within one week of debt collection operation in the region. The amount realised is above the initial target of GH¢5 million, representing 250 percent of the revenue mobilisation. Mr Benjamin Obeng Antwi, the Regional Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency in Ho, said the second-week operation was being finalised. The ECG is embarking on a revenue mobilisation drive to retrieve a debt of GH¢5.7 billion across the country, of which customers in the Volta and Oti regions owe…
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ECG Owes Bui Power Authority US$612 Million
02 Apr

ECG Owes Bui Power Authority US$612 Million

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The Electricity Company of Ghana owes Bui Power Authority (BPA), the managers of the Bui Generating Station more than US$612 million, Mr. Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, the Chief Executive Officer has revealed. He expressed his disappointment in the inability of the ECG to pay the authority as the power produced and supplied to the company remained the only problem confronting the operations of the 404 Megawatts (MW) dam, situated in the Banda District of the Bono Region. Speaking in an interview with the media during a visit by Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister to the dam’s plant site at…
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TOR Cut Off From National Power Grid Over GH¢26 Million Debt
01 Apr

TOR Cut Off From National Power Grid Over GH¢26 Million Debt

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The Tema Oil Refinery has been cut off from the national power grid over failure to settle a GH¢26 million debt owed to the Electricity Company of Ghana, a citinewsroom.com report has said. According to the ECG, the huge sum is an accumulation of unpaid power bills covering several months. The report noted that although TOR had paid about GH¢5 million of the total debt last week, the management of the refinery failed to settle the outstanding debt as scheduled. The ECG taskforce were said to have taken the entire facility off the national power grid and have since served…
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Check Days Of No Lights In Your Area Per ECG’s ‘Dumsor’ Timetable
31 Mar

Check Days Of No Lights In Your Area Per ECG’s ‘Dumsor’ Timetable

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has released its loadshedding timetable to guide consumers during the period of generation shortfall occasioned by the maintenance works on the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant. The exercise will take 14 days. ECG has, therefore, released a timetable for the period between Thursday, March 30 and Good Friday, April 7 during the erratic power supply.         Source: 3News.com
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Power Debt Owed To ECG Was Inherited, We Will Pay Outstanding Debt – Electrochem
30 Mar

Power Debt Owed To ECG Was Inherited, We Will Pay Outstanding Debt – Electrochem

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The management of Electrochem Limited, a salt mining company owned by Dr. Daniel McKorley, has reacted to claims that it owes GH¢300,000 debt to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). This comes after an exercise carried out in the Ada District by the ECG Revenue Taskforce, discovered that the company had owed power debt accrued over the years. But the management of the company, interacting with journalists, explained that the debt situation was an inherited one after it took over the premises. They added that the company had inherited a debt about GH¢2 million from the previous occupants of the…
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