[ 2017-05-22 ]

Hon. Rockson questions mode of retrieving debts from customers of the ECG

ECG using outdated methods to recover debts - NDC MP
The mode of retrieving debts from customers of the
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) continues to be
mindboggling despite powers at hand to prosecute
defaulting customers, a lawmaker has observed.

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of
Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Hon. Rockson
Nelson Defeamekpor has attacked the system used by
ECG to retrieve debts from default customers.

“The systemic failure in ECG is mindboggling
because ECG has been empowered by law to prosecute
defaulting customers for nonpayment of bills”

“SSNIT has also been empowered by the Attorney
General to conduct their own prosecution but they
all have not taken advantage of it” the MP
revealed.

This comes under emergence that the American
Embassy in Ghana says it owes the power
distributor ECG for two years but has not received
billing from the Company in order to settle its
indebtedness.

Hon. Rockson Nelson during panel discussion on Joy
Fm’s news analysis programme Newsfile last
Saturday took a swipe at ECG staff for their
lukewarm attitude towards generating revenue
payable to entities indebted to them.

“When you come to my constituency the conduct of
some ECG personnel is microcosm of the problem”

“In February, there was a bush fire in a
community and as a result, it burnt down one of
the EGG’s high tension poles. A staff from ECG
alleges somebody from Kayera was involved in
setting the bush fire. Even though they came to
replace the poles but they disrupted power to
about three thousand people in Kayara . For over
two weeks, ECG lost revenue from that community
because they had not supplied power to them. I had
to petition the PURC before they restored power
there” Hon. Nelson Rockson stated on Joy FM
Newsfile.

Source - mynewsgh.com

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