ECG MD promises 6% share to anyone who reports illegal connections

The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, has promised citizens who report cases of illegal connections a 6 percent share of the debt to be recovered.

He said this will be a means of encouraging people to help the Company recover all its debt.

“Citizens who report illegal connection will get 6 percent of the amount,” Mr Mahama told journalists at a press conference on Thursday, May 4.

“Let’s all use this as a means to help ECG. ECG is not for one person, it is for all of us.”

The Company embarked on a month-long revenue mobilization effort last month.

It recovered GH¢3.1 billion out of a target of GH¢5.7 billion.

The ECG MD pointed out, however, that some companies had either folded up or relocated when the task force got to their known locations.

Mr Mahama indicated that all those companies owed a total of GH¢750 million.

“These are bills that if probably we are to put in some other efforts or to seek other help, we can actually go out there to see how best we can recoup some of them.”

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