The Ada District of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited has bemoaned the constant unauthorised involvement of certain individuals who keep accessing the electricity distribution network.
This, the District says, ends up causing faults and outages, as well as damage to fuses and transformers, thereby affecting the power supply to consumers.
The District has, therefore, cautioned the public to avoid such interference as it could result in electrocution and damage to properties.
In a telephone conversation with The Chronicle, the Ada District Manager of ECG, Ing Louis Harlley Nutsugah said “We have informed the Assembly Members and other opinion leaders in the various communities to help us (ECG) to advise their people to stop such interference.”
He added that the company was on the lookout to get any such persons and prosecute them for unauthorised entry to our network.
He explained that should this continue to happen, customers would not have a supply for a while, as the company would have to first spend resources to replace the damaged equipment.
Accordingly, he appealed for restraint when such situations occur and not to call electricians and other technicians to fix outage problems.
He said “it is our commitment to ensure power supply and to fix faults as soon as possible. However, there are times when the faults team could be working at one place and so cannot immediately show up at another place.
“We also have a distance to be covered before getting to customers, so we are pleading for restraint and patience and not asking technicians to get into the network to supposedly fix problems.”
Ing Alfred Owusu, who is the District Engineer overseeing the Communities under the ECG Ada District also indicated that in some of the instances, fuses are changed by these unauthorised persons, consequently causing damages to ECG’s transformers because of the loading of more fuses.
Customers were encouraged to pay their bills promptly and avoid piling up debts which eventually become difficult for them to pay.
