The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has issued a statement denying accusations that one of its staff members caused a fire incident at a residence in Koforidua. On Monday, January 27, 2025, the ECG responded to allegations that its staff member was responsible for the fire at a residential facility at Two-Stream in Koforidua, calling them “clearly false accusations without evidence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the ECG, the individual who made the accusations had been owing the company GH\u20b56,519.38 for several months and had been using an illegal connection without the company’s knowledge. The illegal connection was discovered during the ongoing revenue mobilization exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ECG stated that when its staff attempted to disconnect the electricity, they were threatened with a machete. However, with police intervention, the electricity was successfully disconnected without any actions that could have ignited a fire in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ECG has urged the public to disregard these false accusations and warned against fraudulent activities, such as scammers calling customers and demanding payments for ECG services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ECG Refutes Allegations of Causing Fire Incident in Koforidua<\/p>\n
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has issued a statement denying accusations that one of its staff members caused a fire incident at a residence in Koforidua. On Monday, January 27, 2025, the ECG responded to allegations that its staff member was responsible for the fire at a residential facility at Two-Stream in Koforidua, calling them “clearly false accusations without evidence”.<\/p>\n
According to the ECG, the individual who made the accusations had been owing the company GH\u20b56,519.38 for several months and had been using an illegal connection without the company’s knowledge. The illegal connection was discovered during the ongoing revenue mobilization exercises.<\/p>\n
The ECG stated that when its staff attempted to disconnect the electricity, they were threatened with a machete. However, with police intervention, the electricity was successfully disconnected without any actions that could have ignited a fire in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The ECG has urged the public to disregard these false accusations and warned against fraudulent activities, such as scammers calling customers and demanding payments for ECG services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}