Electricity Offenders Would Be Taken To Court Soon– Energy Minister Discloses
Individuals and institutions including Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), the Ghana Airport Company Limited, the University of Ghana, and others that have been owing exorbitant fees to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) would soon be taken to the law court, the Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh has disclosed.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Individuals and institutions including Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), the Ghana Airport Company Limited, the University of Ghana, and others that have been owing exorbitant fees to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) would soon be taken to the law court, the Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh has disclosed.
According to the sector Minister, they have resorted to taking legal action against these individuals and institutions because they demonstrated no commitment to pay the monies they happen to owe the ECG and that the electricity distribution company in an attempt to get these institutions and individuals to pay monies they owed has proved futile.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Dr. Opoku-Prempeh said that there are several ways to get these people to pay including taking them to court.
“The law is what we use to prosecute these electricity offenders.
“I can assure you the Judiciary system has already put in place special courts for electricity offenders. Where judges have been appointed. Where when you go, some of these recalcitrant institutions will find out that the power will be given to ECG to garnishee your account,” he said.
The Energy Minister added that there are several modes of getting these “recalcitrant institutions” to pay their debt, including legal procedures, he prefers denying them service so they “sit down and arrange payment”.
He further noted that if the Electricity Company of Ghana fails to pay for services rendered to them by a government agency, the company garnishees their account. – Goes through legal procedures of taking their monies.
“ECG itself, when it fails to pay another government institution called GRA of the necessary pensions or taxes, GRA takes the position of going to garnishee ECG account because GRA cannot go and do Dumsor in ECG,” he said.
Giving his approval of the legal procedure, he said, “And as a minister, I support the garnishee”.
He cautioned electricity offenders to do the needful, adding that institutions that have refused to pay their piled-up debt will soon witness a cause of action from the ECG.
