The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has recovered a total of GHC6,525,642 (1,059,357.45) from customers who engage in power theft or illegal connection.
The above figure was realised through the efforts of the National Task Force and ECG’s Revenue Protection Section.
Managing Director of ECG, Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu, who disclosed this, said the Task Force, together with ECG’s Revenue Protection Section, has visited over 12,730 customers.
He said the team unearthed 1,537 illegal connections and recovered GHS6, 525,645.
The Task Force was constituted by Ghana’s Ministry of Energy to halt illegal connections.
Mr Agyeman-Budu who appealed to the public to assist in fighting this canker of illegal connections said ECG has a handsome reward package for informants who would give tip-offs for illegal connections.
According to him, informants would be given six per cent of the total monies to be recovered as a result of their patriotic duty.
“We assure the general public that the identities of all informants will be strictly protected at all times,” he assured.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com