The Ada District of the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) has bemoaned the constant unauthorised involvement of individuals accessing the electricity distribution network for various reasons.

This, the District says, ends up causing faults and outages, as well as damage to fuses and transformers, thereby affecting power supply to consumers.

The District is therefore cautioning the public to avoid such interference as it could result in electrocution and damage to property.

The Ada District Manager of the ECG, Ing. Louis Harlley Nutsugah made this call while interacting with a cross-section of media persons on Monday, 11th November 2024 at the Ada Office. He indicated: "We have informed the Assembly Members and other opinion leaders in the various communities to help us advise their people to stop such interferences."

He furthered: "We are also on the lookout to get any such person and prosecute them for unauthorized entry to our network."

On his part, Ing. Alfred Owusu, the District Engineer overseeing the communities under the ECG Ada District, indicated that the culprits end up damaging the Company's transformers through their illicit activities.

He asserted, "In some instances, fuses are changed by these persons who decide to do these on their own. The changes end up causing damage to our transformers because of over fusing." Should this keep happening, customers will not have supply for a while, and the company now has to spend resources to replace the damaged equipment."

The District Management team also appealed to the general public, asking them to exercise restraint and not call on electricians and other technicians to fix outage problems for them.

Ing Nutsugah mentioned that "it is our commitment to ensure power supply and to fix faults as soon as possible. However, there are times when the faults team could be working at one place and can not immediately show up at another place. We also have distance to be covered before getting to customers, so we are pleading for restraint and patience and not asking technicians to get into the network to supposedly fix problems."

Ing. Louis Harlley Nutsugah also pleaded with customers to pay their bills on time and not pile up debt, which becomes difficult to pay.