W/R: ECG taskforce retrieves over GH¢3m from defaulting customers in Sekondi-Takoradi
The Revenue Mobilization Taskforce Unit of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Monday, September 5, 2022 recovered over GH¢3 million from electricity defaulters within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
Speaking to Citi News in Takoradi during the Taskforce's operation to recover revenue from its defaulting customers, the Western Regional Communications Officer of the ECG, Benjamin Quarcoo said the exercise was successful.
While cautioning prospecting customers of ECG from falling victim to bad nuts within the company, the Western Regional Acting Manager of the Electricity Company, John Quayson-Dadzie, advised that prospective customers should avoid payment for promised temporary meters or demand receipt for all payments.
“Since we do not give temporary meters to prospecting customers, any ECG staff who will promise a customer temporary meter, that staff is out there to dupe the prospective customer. The customer should not make any payment but rather report such official. Again, all payments made to ECG must be receipted and customers must insist on it”, he said.
Unlike the numerous tempering of meters by customers that were detected in the Greater Accra Region and huge default leading to disconnections, the ECG taskforce’s exercise within the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis was largely a success.
The ECG team retrieved over a million cedis from the Takoradi Technical University, as well as another million cedis from Anaji Shopping.
It however disconnected Grand Favour Hotel from the national power grid over its inability to clear its GH¢300,000 debt.