Nana Opare Amankwaah II, the chief of Ahojo, near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, has taken a swipe at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), for disconnecting electricity supply to one of the communities under his jurisdiction.
The chief told Daily Guide in Sunyani, where he is currently based that ECG had disconnected electricity supply to the whole community of Asukyerema, near Adeiso without any justifiable reason.
He said the unfortunate development had left the people in the entire community to sleep in total darkness since August this year, thereby affecting businesses and other economic activities in the area.
Nana Opare Amankwaah also hinted that his people are demanding that electricity is restored to the Asukyerema community to prevent the people from venting their spleen on the ECG.
He explained to the paper that the electrification project in the community was initiated by the erstwhile Kufuor NPP Administration, which was later continued after the Mills NDC government took over in 2009.
According to him, the project was stalled somehow along the way, and about two months to the December 2012 general elections, the community was finally connected to the National Grid without meters to customers.
Nana Opare Amankwaah said ECG officials later came around to collect money from the community people to procure meters for them.
He, however, said up-to-date, ECG had failed to fix the said meters for the people even though everybody in the community had long paid for the meters.
The chief said to their surprise, ECG officials stormed the community about two months ago in August to remove the fuse in the power transmitter to disconnect the entire community claiming that the people were using power for free.
He said all efforts to get the ECG to replace the removed fuse had proved futile as the officials have refused to cooperate with the people.
He expressed regret that the ECG had chosen to treat the people of Asukyerema with contempt whilst other neighbouring communities are comfortably enjoying power.
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