Form task force to investigate electricity metre replacement exercise

Dear Editor

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is currently on an exercise to replace old metres with new ones.

It appears the exercise has gone on smoothly, but I have still made some observation which is making me suspect foul play in the exercise.

For instance in the some houses where there are more than one metre, the ECG officials changed some and leave the others.

It beats one imagination to know why.

And from what I have gathered, it appears the owners of these ‘untouchable’ are those with ‘connections’ at ECG so they make calls and the team would just leave without replacing the metres.

This is something the authorities must look into and conduct an audit into this metre replacement exercise.

If there are not legal reasons, then the company must put up a task force to investigate this claim deal with the culprits, if indeed these claims are true.

That is the only way ECG can raise enough revenue to settle its huge indebtedness to Asogli Power and other Independent Power Producers (IPPs) which is running into billions of dollars.

This is a very important lead ECG must consider to make sure every user of power contributes something to ensure sustainable power supply.  

Max Baiden,

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