The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has given all of its customers a one-month deadline to fix any problems with their meters before an approaching audit of all meters, which would result in the prosecution of those responsible.
According to ECG, the measure would assist to permanently minimize commercial losses, clear the system of any electrical illegalities, and boost the company's income.
Customers who have not received bills, prepaid customers who have not purchased energy credit, customers with malfunctioning meters, those who have tempered their meters, and all those who have engaged in any sort of criminality are urged to gladly own up under the company's one-month moratorium.
Any client detected breaking the law after the one-month moratorium, according to the power distribution business, will be dealt with according to the law.
Mr. Daniel Anokye Abebrese, the company's Director of Customer Service, told the media in Takoradi that the company's biggest problem over the years has been its losses, which have harmed the company's viability.
He said that losses were unavoidable in every electrical firm throughout the world.
"What is intolerable, though, is the magnitude of our losses." As a result, we are working to decrease the amount of commercial losses once and for all by eliminating all electrical illegalities in order to boost revenue mobilization," he said.
He said that losses in the electrical industry are divided into two categories: technical and commercial losses.
He emphasized that the corporation has control over commercial losses, citing uncaptured meters as an example of commercial losses.
"This is when clients utilize meters that aren't recorded in our system, and they don't pay for the power they use," he stated.
Commercial losses were also attributed to malfunctioning meters and consumers who tampered with meters so that they did not record the real power consumption or pay for the entire usage of electricity, according to him.
As a result, Mr Abebrese stated that the ECG was urging consumers who had such abnormalities on their meters to come out freely to have them checked.