The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will effective Monday, March 20, 2023, temporarily close down its Head, Regional, and District offices for a month as it embarks on a nationwide revenue mobilization exercise.
“This massive revenue mobilisation exercise will focus on all categories of customers in arrears including State-Owned Enterprises and will be monitored by special teams who will apprehend and prosecute customers who attempt to interfere with the exercise, and/or undertake illegal self-reconnection after disconnection,” it said in a public notice.
The notice further urged all cherished customers of the power distribution company to, as a matter of urgency, pay their bills immediately to avoid disconnection and payment of reconnection fees.
Parts of the notice also warned that recalcitrant customers who refuse to redeem their “indebtedness to the company after they have been served with Final Demand Notice will be arraigned before the Court of Law.
The full statement read:
“The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited wishes to inform its numerous esteemed customers that the Company will embark on a Nationwide Revenue Mobilisation exercise, commencing 20th March to 20th April 2023.
This massive revenue mobilisation exercise will focus on all categories of customers in arrears including State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and will be monitored by special teams who will apprehend and prosecute customers who attempt to interfere with the exercise, and/or undertake illegal self-reconnection after disconnection.
Pursuant to this exercise, the Head office, Regional and District offices of ECG will be temporarily closed during the revenue mobilisation period, except for Customer Service Centres, to enable total participation by top Management and Staff.
Management wishes to notify the General Public that, recalcitrant customers who have refused to redeem their indebtedness to the Company after they have been served with a Final Demand Notice will be arraigned before the Court of Law.
Management wishes to advise all customers in arrears to pay their bills now to avoid disconnection and payment of reconnection fees.”
