By Laudia Sawer
Ada, Nov. 12, GNA – Mr Louis Harlley Nutsugah, the Ada District Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has bemoaned the constant interferences on the company’s distribution network by unauthorised persons.
Mr Nutsugah, interacting with the media, said such interference ended up causing faults and outages and led to the damaging of fuses and transformers, affecting power supply to consumers.
He cautioned the public to avoid such acts as they could result in electrocution and damage to properties.
He noted that his outfit had informed assembly members and other opinion leaders in the various communities to help caution the people against such interferences.
“We are also on the lookout to get any such persons and prosecute them for unauthorised entry to our network,” he added.
The district manager made an appeal to the public to exercise restraint and desist from calling on electricians and other technicians to fix outage problems for them, as it was the duty of the ECG to fix such faults.
He stated that “it is our commitment to ensure power supply and to fix faults as soon as possible. However, there are times when the faults team could be working at one place and cannot immediately show up at another place.
“We also have distance to be covered before getting to customers, so we are pleading for restraint and patience and not asking technicians to get into the network to supposedly fix problems.”
He also pleaded with customers to pay their bills on time, as piling up bills would make it difficult for them to pay.
Mr Alfred Owusu, the Ada ECG District Engineer, revealed that in some of the cases, perpetrators changed fuses themselves, which ended up causing damage to the company’s transformers due to over fusing.
“Should this keep happening, customers will not have supply for a while, and the company now has to spend resources to replace the damaged equipment,” he added.
GNA