The Revenue Team of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) – Accra East Division has uncovered widespread illegal electricity connections at Rehoboth Estate in Kweiman.
During an inspection of the estate, the team discovered that over 100 newly built homes had been connected to the electricity grid illegally.
Additionally, a block factory within the estate was found to be using an illegal connection to power its operations.
In a video shared by JoyNews on X, members of the ECG team were heard expressing their frustration: “They don’t have meters. These people are very wicked. There are cables on the floor. Almost everybody has an air conditioner in this estate.”
JoyNews further reported that, following the discovery of widespread power theft, the illegally connected block factory—used for supplying construction materials—was disconnected from the power supply.
The Accra East Revenue Protection Manager of ECG, Eunice Nana Agyemang, who led the operation, noted that the team had uncovered large-scale electricity theft in the area.
She explained that the illegally connected properties would be disconnected and issued new meters along with recovery bills.
She also indicated that the company’s legal team would be pursuing the matter.
“Upon going around, we discovered that there is mass theft in this estate. Most of the houses are on direct connections. They do not have meters and are, therefore, using electricity for free.
“What we intend to do is disconnect them from the source. We are also going to serve the developer with an illegal connection notice, requiring them to report to our office and officially apply for meters for these houses,” she told the media after the operation.
In recent times, the ECG has raised concerns over significant revenue losses due to illegal electricity connections. Some of the most common forms of power theft identified include direct service connections, meter bypassing, meter tampering, and unauthorised service connections.
The company says it is intensifying efforts to crack down on such illegalities and ensure offenders are brought to book.
Agyemang added, “Once the meters are acquired, we will prepare recovery bills, affix them to the meters, and hand them over to the developer for further action. We will take this matter up and leave it to our legal team to handle.”