Power to Nuaso Old Town in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region has been cut off from the national grid by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
The ECG’s action comes after some residents of the area allegedly threatened to pour hot and inflict cutlass wounds on the ECG and military officers should they fix the prepaid meters in the area.
Per reports, the military men who were with the ECG officials retaliated by brutalizing the residents.
According to the Public Relations Officer for ECG in the Tema Region, Sakyiwaa Mensah, power will only be restored when the residents consent to the installation of the prepaid meters.
“We do not want a situation where we as a company would be piling on debt that we have not intended. This is how we operate in every other place.â€
“As we are not getting to do that [install the metres], before this outage, as part of the road map, we had said if you do not want the prepaid metres, we will disconnect you from the grid,†she said.
Meanwhile, the Assembly Member for Nuaso Electoral Area in the Eastern Region, Samuel Torgbor, says two persons are currently receiving treatment from injuries sustained yesterday.
The Yilo and Manya Krobo municipalities were previously without power for almost a month because of the impasse with ECG over the installation of the meters.