Mr Simon Agbango, the Bawku West District Chief Executive has expressed satisfaction at the progress of work of the rural Electrification Project in the district.

Mr Agbango said about 70 per cent of communities chosen to benefit from the Electrification Project had received the support and called on communities that had not been covered to exercise patience as they would be covered in the second phase of the project.

The DCE made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, in Zebilla, in the Upper East Region.

He however alerted communities benefitting from the electrification project, referred to as the Thengashep Project, to desist from paying monies to sub-contractors carrying out work in the communities, saying “it is not acceptable to pay money for services that had been contracted”.

Mr Agbango reiterated government’s commitment to ensuring that rural communities were connected to the national grid and warned people who were behind the payment of the illegal fees to stop immediately.

The DCE affirmed that reports of illegal payments of fees by some households had come to the notice of the District Assembly, which according to him, was unacceptable since such services were already contracted.

He urged communities and members of the Assembly to report any illegal charges of fees.

Under the project, 88,919 households in 500 communities in nine districts of the upper east region are expected to benefit from the rural electrification project.