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Retail shops and roving vendors will soon start selling pre paid metre credits of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The step is part of the company�s quest to help customers get easy access to pre paid meter credits. As part of the plan, customers of ECG who use pre-paid metres will be able to access the credit at retail shops and from roving venders just like the mobile telecommunication companies. The officer in charge of Tariffs at ECG, Mr Ebenezer Baiden made this known at a forum in Kumasi. If this plan becomes operational, the numerous customers of the company will be spared the perennial trouble of traveling long distances and the loss of man hours in queues to purchase pre-paid electricity credit. Mr Baiden disclosed that the company had already spent GH₵4m in procuring 10 life line vehicles in all of its operational regions for repair works. According to him, about 400 thousand people get connected to the national grid annually adding that that the situation puts pressure on the system. He said the company also plans to expand and improve the quality of its services to customers. Mr Baiden noted that the present tariff being charged for a unit of electric power is woefully inadequate to enable the company to expand its operations and therefore urged the citizenry to be willing to pay more. H explained that it was for these reasons that ECG and its sister-companies were jointly asking for an upward adjustment of the current tariff from 44 pesewas to one Ghana Cedi for each kilowatt of electricity. He said despite the tariff increases, electricity is far cheaper than alternative sources of energy and therefore appealed to the people to accept the tariff adjustment proposals.