ECG disconnects Ashanti GBC over GH¢ 1.75 million debt
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s (GBC) Garden City Radio in
the Ashanti Region, has been taken off air after the Electricity Company
of Ghana (ECG) disconnected the facility over a GH¢ 1.75 million debt.
The disconnection exercise was carried out on Thursday despite a plea
by the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid to the Minister of
Energy to hold on with the disconnection exercise.
“We entreat you to use your good offices to get ECG to stop these
disconnections, while we (Ministry of Energy, GBC, NMC and the Ministry
of Information) meet to find a solution to GBC’s indebtedness to ECG.”
Nonetheless, workers of the ECG entered the premises of the GBC to carry out the disconnection exercise.
An altercation however ensued between the workers of the ECG and GBC
causing the latter to block the pick-up vehicle the ECG workers had
brought in to carry out the disconnection exercise.
Police from the Asokwa District Command were later called in to maintain order.
Public Relations Officer of ECG in the Ashanti Region, Erasmus
Baidoo, said several efforts had been made to retrieve the money
amicably, but to no avail, lamenting that the amount was ballooning, and
that they needed to act as it’s been done with other power consumers.
He however expressed disappointment in the Regional Director of the GBC who supervised the deflation of the tyres of ECG’s car.
The Ashanti Regional Director of the GBC, Sam Kwatia, has also
threatened a legal action against the three workers of the ECG over what
he called unlawful entry to the premises which enabled them to
disconnect the power.
Credit: Citifmonline.com
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