The Ada District of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited has bemoaned the constant unauthorized involvement of certain individuals who keep accessing the electricity distribution network in the district.
This, the company says causes faults and outages, as well as damage to fuses and transformers, thereby affecting power supply to consumers in the district.
The company is therefore cautioning the public to avoid such interferences as it could result in electrocution and damage to property.
The Ada District Manager of ECG, Ing. Louis Harlley Nutsugah made this call while interacting with a cross-section of media persons on Monday, November 11 2024 at the Ada Office.
“We have informed the Assembly Members and other opinion leaders in the various communities to help us advise their people to stop such interferences.
“We are also on the lookout to get any such person and prosecute them for unauthorized entry to our network”, he stated.
Ing. Alfred Owusu, who is the District Engineer overseeing the communities under the ECG Ada District, indicated that “in some of the instances, fuses are changed by these persons who decide to do these on their own. The changes end up causing damage to our transformers because of over fusing.”
“Should this keep happening, customers will not have supply for a while, and the company now has to spend resources to replace the damaged equipment,” he noted.
The District Management team also made an appeal to the public asking them to exercise restraint and not call on electricians and other technicians to fix outage problems for them.
“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 cannot immediately show up at another place.
“We also have 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,” District Manger stated.
The Manager also pleaded with customers to pay their bills on time and to not pile up debt which then becomes difficult to pay.
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