The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), has called for an overhaul of the distribution system of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) after it uncovered that agents of the power distribution companies and some political actors are conniving with residential power consumers to fix illegal meters in homes.
The Policy Lead for Petroleum and Conventional Energy at ACEP, Kodzo Yaotse, presenting the facts at a virtual meeting in Accra described the situation as widespread and costing the country more than 1.3 million cedis.
In view of this, he charged government to take immediate step to curb the situation.
Mr Yaotse said the Centre’s discovery is just the tip of the iceberg since the illicit act is costing the country millions of cedis as its being carried out nationwide.
ACEP asked ECG to immediately take steps to regularize all meters and eliminate the damaged ones.
They must also adopt a whistle-blower mechanism to support the detection of illegal connection in the system.