The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has started an initiative aimed at disconnecting customers who are utilising power without fulfilling payment obligations.
The initiative, dubbed ‘Operation No Free Consumption’, started on February 1, 2024, and is expected to end on February 16, 2024.
During this exercise, ECG field teams will be engaged in updating customer details, including phone numbers and GPS addresses, as well as collecting any outstanding arrears.
Within the exercise, non-payment of arrears will result in disconnections.
The External Relations Officer of ECG, Laila Abubakar, has issued a warning, indicating that customers found violating non-payment may face prosecution.
“We have done targeted mapping of where these pay points are. And we are going to use the next two weeks to fish out these people who are using electricity without paying anything to us.
“We found them last year and tried to regularise them, and they have gone back to their old ways.
“We now have a new directorate, which is the prosecution directorate, which is going to take on a lot of companies and individuals who have refused to stick to the ethos of using power and paying for power.
“For the next 12 months to come, we have various revenue mobilisations that are going to happen,” she said.