The Electricity Company of Ghana has raised concerns over an alarming rate of meter tampering across the country, leading to a surge in technical losses for the company.
Addressing the concern at a press conference on Monday, February 3, the company revealed that in Dansoman alone, approximately 10% of the 70,000 installed meters have been tampered with, causing them to under-record electricity consumption.
Acting Managing Director of ECG, David Boadi Asamoah, issued a stern warning, emphasizing that anyone caught engaging in such illegal activities would face the full force of the law.
“We will conduct thorough investigations, and there are laws in this country. After our investigations, law enforcement agencies like the police will take over.
“Once the police complete their work, the case will proceed to court, where the law on the case will be applied because this is stealing it’s a criminal offence,” he stated.
He further assured that no one involved whether a contractor, electrician, or customer would be spared.
“I must assure you, that the ECG will not spare anybody, being it a contractor, an electrician or whosoever if you are caught in this you will not be spared, so from what we have seen, we will run after them and the beneficiary will also have their share ”
David Boadi Asamoah lamented the impact of such unpatriotic acts on ECG’s operations, stating that collusion between customers and some contract workers to manipulate meters is undermining the company’s financial stability and, by extension, the country’s economic growth.
He bemoaned the fact that such unpatriotic behaviour by customers who collude with contract workers of ECG to render meters dysfunctional is affecting their operations and, by extension, eroding the gains of the state.
The government has set in motion plans to privatize ECG to cut losses and enhance efficiency. Despite a divided front on this subject, ECG, in its current state, is struggling due to numerous illegal activities and power theft.
The Acting Managing Director, Asamoah, called for a robust plan to curb system losses.