Ashanti Region : ECG To Cut Power To GBC, Kumasi Airport Others Over GHC1 Billion Debts

The Ashanti regional branch of the Electricity Company of Ghana (GBC) has announced a mass disconnection exercise beginning Wednesday, October 20, 2021.

The exercise dubbed “Operation Collect and correct all debts” will affect state broadcasters  Garden City radio and TV.

According to the Ashanti regional ECG managing Director David Asamoah, the state broadcaster is owing ECG in excess of two million cedis without making efforts to pay.

 

He said the Kumasi airport company among other commercial and private entities will also be affected by the exercise.

 

The Kumasi Kejetia market where power supply was disconnected and restored last Wednesday will also be disconnected over two million cedis debt.

 

The ECG MD disclosed that currently, there’s a shortage of prepaid meters in the region that needs to be restocked but they have no money.

 

The power supplier is, therefore, urging all clients across the region to settle their accumulative debts before Wednesday, October 20, or suffer disconnection.

 

Operation ‘correct and collect’ aims at correcting all inappropriate bills and collecting all outstanding bills.

 

 

 

Total debt

 

According to the Ashanti Regional MD of the ECG, David Asamoah, the exercise will help the firm recover about GHC1 billion money in debt and help “serve Asanteman better”.

“At the moment people have even paid for services and things we are unable to provide because we also owe our creditors, so we need to be able to find money to pay them,” Asamoah said.

Whilst the Ashanti regional GBC office owes ECG almost GHC2 million, the Kumasi Kejetia Market owes GHC2.1million of the total amount in debt.

 

The Kumasi Kejetia Market was plunged into darkness last Wednesday (13 October 2021) over its five-month unpaid power service debt. However, power was restored after an intervention by the newly elected city mayor, Sam Pyne.

Asamoah reveals the about GHC2.1million debt will be cleared on Tuesday 19 October.

 

“The good news is that, after disconnecting them last week, we negotiated and they have issued cheque for us tomorrow (Tuesday), so for them, at least we have an assurance that there is going to be payment,” he said.

Asamoah has advised patrons of the ECG to pay monies owed them to avoid disconnection.