[ 2011-04-15 ]

Electricity fast-track court in the offing
An Electricity Fast-Track Court will soon commence
operations to prosecute customers who indulged in
fraudulent power deals.

Mr Anthony Gyampo, Acting Managing Director of
Electricity Company of Ghana, who announced this,
said the processes to establish the court were
underway and might be concluded soon for it to
begin sitting.

Speaking at the 2010 National Award ceremony for
employees, Mr Gyampo warned that the company would
not hesitate to punish staff who engaged in
negative activities such as meter theft and other
counter-productive activities.

"The company will do whatever it takes to bring
them to book and to protect the customer from such
miscreants. Insiders would certainly attract
stiffer sanctions when apprehended," he said.

The national employees' awards scheme is part of a
larger strategy to create a supportive environment
to improve staff performance and productivity.

It is an integral part of a motivational process
to build a lasting and enviable corporate culture
that would recognise and celebrate exceptional
contribution of staff.

Mr Gyampo assured customers that ECG would
continue to explore and deploy good operational
and customer care systems to make service delivery
better.

Deputy Minister of Energy, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Buah,
expressed the hope that the increasing level of
system upgrades and improvements would enable the
ECG to considerably reduce the outages.

He pledged government assistance to the company to
carry out its programmes of systems upgrade and
expansion in the sub-transmission network as well
as in setting up of additional bulk supply points
and primary sub stations to meet the high load
growth.

Mr Buah asked the employees to eschew illegalities
such as wrong tapping of power, wrong reading of
electric meters and other malfeasance.

He tasked the management of ECG to improve
existing mechanisms, institute proactive and
transparent measures to effectively address these
perennial challenges of unsavoury acts of
disservice to the company.

In all 11 workers received awards for their
excellent contributions to the growth of the
company in 2010.

The overall best national worker award went to Ms
Rachel Essandoh, who received a laptop computer, a
plaque and a cheque for GH¢2,000.

The first runner-up Mr Godson Alipui received a
laptop and a cheque for GH¢1,500 and the second
runner-up Felix Lassey Sowatsri received a laptop
and a cheque for GH¢1,000.

Source - GNA

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