ABOUT 13 per cent of electricity generated in the country is stolen.
At the regional level, the Ashanti Region is the most affected with 12 per cent generated power stolen through illegal connections.
The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Mr Cephas Gakpo, who made this known, warned that the law would deal with offenders.
He was speaking at a forum in Kumasi, to brief customers about issues relating to electricity supply in the Ashanti Region and appealed to public to co-operate with the company to smoke out the criminals in the system.
He admitted that the company was facing many challenges including obsolete equipment and called on customers to pay their bills promptly to help address the challenges.
He said there was light at the end of the tunnel for the Ashanti Region because a tentative programme to improve electricity supply in the region took off two months ago.
He said within the next 18 months, the ECG’s numerous customers in the region would enjoy reliable supply.
Mr Gakpo said the African Development Bank (AfDB) was funding the construction of a second bulk supply point in the region.
The company, he said, was also constructing two substations at Feyiase and Fawode.
Again, the construction of five additional fully-furnished district offices at Suame and New Edubiase were ongoing.
He said the ECG was replacing credit metres with Split-Type Pre-paid metres in the Ashanti Region.
The ECG’s construction work on two customer service centres under the Ghana Energy Development and Access Project at Pankrono and Juaso were to start soon, Mr Gakpo said.
Meanwhile, he said, an order had been placed for the importation of about 107,000 metre phases for onward distribution to customers in the region.
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