Nathan Boyor, the media relations officer for United Krobo foundation, has asked the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to do the right thing or vacate Somanya lands.
This comes after residents of Somanya in the Eastern Region embarked on a demonstration to agitate high electricity bills from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Scores of aggrieved customers were seen holding placards with inscriptions, “We don’t want you,” “We want VRA,” “Freedom from ECG,” “We will not pay bills” “ECG move from Krobo lands” among others.
Some of the demonstrators who spoke to Atinka News’ Maame Akosua expressed their displeasure with the high electricity bills the Electricity Company of Ghana assigns to residents in Somanya.
They accused the Electricity Company of Ghana of providing faulty prepaid meters to residents which is taking a toll on their finances.
“We don’t want them, We want VRA. We want to be free from ECG. How can we pay bills as much as GHS10,000 and GHS5,000. This is outrageous. We will react by not paying bills should our pleas be left unheard”, some of the angry residents told Maame Akosua.
The demonstrators marched through selected streets of Somanya and presented a petition to the management of the Volta River Authority (VRA).
“These people here are not salaried workers who can afford the levels of bills churned out by ECG in the area,” they emphasised. Why should we have VRA operating on Krobo lands for us to be enrolled on ECG platforms for us to be paying huge bills,” they said.
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Giving reasons for the demonstration, the media relations officer for United Krobo Foundation, Nathan Boyor, told sit-in-host for Atinka FM’s AM Drive Nana Owoahene Acheampong that the ECG provided faulty meters to some residents in Somanya which has resulted in accumulated bills.
He mentioned that till today, the manager who supervised the sharing of the faulty meters is still at post.
“ It is their fault and so we want them to scrap the bills. We are tired of paying accumulated bills. They should do the right thing,” Nathan Boyor told Nana Owoahene Acheampong.
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