Mahama blames high tariff on power theft

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Kwasi 10 years ago

It would be helpful if Government Ministries, Agencies etc. paid all their debt to EGC. There should be nothing like free power, and this should start right from the top.

It would be helpful if Government Ministries, Agencies etc. paid all their debt to EGC. There should be nothing like free power, and this should start right from the top.
insight to the bone 10 years ago

The so called fake National Security has over 20,000 agents the majority lack any professional or proper training . They are all politically biased and to justify their existence indulge in scheming and mischievous conspiraci ...
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The so called fake National Security has over 20,000 agents the majority lack any professional or proper training . They are all politically biased and to justify their existence indulge in scheming and mischievous conspiracies like we saw in the case of the alleged assassin , the back up organization of lynching 34 judges , rigging the elections and lately the quasi escalation of militarization of political parties, distribution of weapons and arms to northerners and Ewes , loosening the screws of Nana addo's stage so it collapses during his speech, smuggling our gold to Muslim criminal countries ad the list is endless. Yes their modus operandi is well known even to toddlers and nobody is buying their stories as the motives are more than evident.The only true opposition today that has not yet been infiltrated by your agent provocateurs , sleepers or spies is the Akan freedom movement so play as you will with the NPP but we have instructed our people to make sure NDC ends up on the waste dump of failed history. Try to create so many lies and confusion that no one can recognize the truth or with adequate perception know right from wrong. When i started writing the truth here all forumers can witness they threatened to arrest me or kill me but these fake cowards can even smell my shit . They are responsible for the bloated election registry and behind all the corruption but we warn them to refer to recent history and will notice that secret services and other clandestine organizations fell apart in the former USSR , Yugoslavia , Baas Iraq , Qaddafi and even Syria. They forget without the support and trust of the people they are nothing so they should continue driving around in their big cars spending our money foolishly as very soon we Akans shall put an end to their stupidity. They are slowly pushing us to a war and we shall be victorious as they can never be on our level. Its is clear to all now and confirmed by most international security agencies the Mahama and his mafia NDC will loose and never come back. Kuffour , Mahama , JJ , all have one thing in common they promoted Reaganomics ,Thatcher economics or trickle down philosophy economics which only is meant to make a few privileged rich and the rest live in poverty. We see there is a God and what the British did to us through Nkrumah by saddling us with the backward Muslim pepeni is now on their doorstep. First they will request for affirmative politics which means free education , preferred minority employment and it will end in these Muslims insisting on ruling over them and being presidents or ministers. Some Europeans see what will happen so are trying to set us up so again we receive these wicked people. These see that even third generation Muslims are sleepers we cause destruction and misery whenever they can . In Ghana they have an alliance with the wicked ayigbe and have caused the islamisation of the govt and country , We shall never surrender
SINTUATION 10 years ago

If Mahama can identify the root cause of high utility tarrifs and cannot do anything effective about it, it clearly shows the type of leader he is. Maybe he needs some coaching from the new Tanzanian President. Enough said.

If Mahama can identify the root cause of high utility tarrifs and cannot do anything effective about it, it clearly shows the type of leader he is. Maybe he needs some coaching from the new Tanzanian President. Enough said.
GHANAMAN 10 years ago

Everyone I know in Accra steals electricity and you are depending on the president to stop it. What a bunch of slow people. How about asking your mothers fathers and sisters to be good citizens for once. I have no illegal con ...
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Everyone I know in Accra steals electricity and you are depending on the president to stop it. What a bunch of slow people. How about asking your mothers fathers and sisters to be good citizens for once. I have no illegal connection means I pay for all the thieves.
KOFI WEST HAVEN 10 years ago

haha sorry to say this forms of blind partisanship will not help you.for once reason as a ..... and dont make a fool out of your self.

haha sorry to say this forms of blind partisanship will not help you.for once reason as a ..... and dont make a fool out of your self.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author:-TULA...

Massa; there is no way Jon Dubai Mahama will dare prosecute this lady because the truth is that Jon Mahama Dubai Mahama has not got the 'balls' to prosecute anybody because the man is himself dripping in t ...
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Author:-TULA...

Massa; there is no way Jon Dubai Mahama will dare prosecute this lady because the truth is that Jon Mahama Dubai Mahama has not got the 'balls' to prosecute anybody because the man is himself dripping in the faeces of corruption how can the man prsecute any body besides this is a single woman with no husband that Jon Mahama shares a bed with whilst in the hotel and by the way have you ever seen Jon Mahama prosecute any high official in his government but have the balls to go and pile debts on Ghanaians.
Meshack 10 years ago

You are such an indecent, deceiving liar...how many people have been arrested for stealing power?

You are such an indecent, deceiving liar...how many people have been arrested for stealing power?
AGBOVI CUDJOE 10 years ago

Power theft : THE PRESIDENT OUT OF DESPERATION IS INSULTING THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM AS THIEVES .????????????

Power theft : THE PRESIDENT OUT OF DESPERATION IS INSULTING THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM AS THIEVES .????????????
Ohene 10 years ago

when power cut offs doesn't affect the tariffs of customers. Tell me people still pay more of electricity bills even with these power outages. ECG still meet up their revenue that's why the power companies and government don' ...
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when power cut offs doesn't affect the tariffs of customers. Tell me people still pay more of electricity bills even with these power outages. ECG still meet up their revenue that's why the power companies and government don't find any reasons to solve the problem.
wkl 10 years ago

Power theft, look inside ECG staff both Seniors and juniors, they are the people doing the illegal connections for the industries especially the foreigners in the industries.My advice is send ECG staff from Accra to Tema, Tak ...
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Power theft, look inside ECG staff both Seniors and juniors, they are the people doing the illegal connections for the industries especially the foreigners in the industries.My advice is send ECG staff from Accra to Tema, Takoradi to Kumasi and let them do the search and retrive and you will see results. The government should also pay his tariff to ECG reduce the burden on ECG.

Joe Turkey 10 years ago

What percentage of electricity is stolen (as compared to the monies stolen by Mahama). The $1.5 million he paid his brother to cart $3 million to footballers in Brazil could have paid part of the debt owed to ECG by governmen ...
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What percentage of electricity is stolen (as compared to the monies stolen by Mahama). The $1.5 million he paid his brother to cart $3 million to footballers in Brazil could have paid part of the debt owed to ECG by government institutions. Dzulor.
Worfa Twum Adjei 10 years ago

Mr President it is the same ECG staff causing all this problem. My meter got defective months ago and I hv been chasing ECG for a replace but till now hmmmmm. One time their computers shows the meter was issued but when we st ...
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Mr President it is the same ECG staff causing all this problem. My meter got defective months ago and I hv been chasing ECG for a replace but till now hmmmmm. One time their computers shows the meter was issued but when we started tracing it, the same computer has no trace of this meter. What a shame.
kodzovi 10 years ago

Mr Incompetent and Irresponsible JDM how many times haven't i advised you. I said go to Chorkor and Teshie

Mr Incompetent and Irresponsible JDM how many times haven't i advised you. I said go to Chorkor and Teshie
Freethinker 10 years ago

I was amazed to find out that you could run all your electrical gadgets from ac to anything 24/7 for less than 50cedis a month in the rural area....
thats where the loss is.
one must pay for watts used and offer a subsidy f ...
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I was amazed to find out that you could run all your electrical gadgets from ac to anything 24/7 for less than 50cedis a month in the rural area....
thats where the loss is.
one must pay for watts used and offer a subsidy for minimal wattage used and not a flat rural rate
!!!
Ghana Ba 10 years ago

The problem isn't power theft, if politicians started paying for their own power, the problem will definitely be solve.

The problem isn't power theft, if politicians started paying for their own power, the problem will definitely be solve.
EBEI, MAHAMA !!!!! 10 years ago

Then the number one Thief is your Government which uses but never pays for electricity. That real thief must pay up and not pass its debts on to consumers. We, the paying consumers, are tired and suffering from your never end ...
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Then the number one Thief is your Government which uses but never pays for electricity. That real thief must pay up and not pass its debts on to consumers. We, the paying consumers, are tired and suffering from your never ending tariff hikes !!!
vote them out 2016 10 years ago

Mr president, give us a break, your days and that of your incompetent govrt are numbered. Still over 24hrs light out .

Mr president, give us a break, your days and that of your incompetent govrt are numbered. Still over 24hrs light out .
asem 10 years ago

if mahama pays his debt owe to EGG, Ghana will be fine

if mahama pays his debt owe to EGG, Ghana will be fine
BEN 10 years ago

THE WORKERS OF ECG ARE NOT CORRECT LIKE YOU YOUR SELF. I VE BEEN CHASING THEM FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS TO CAPTURE MY METER AND BRING ME MY BILL BUT THEY DON'T BOTHER. I VE BEEN TO THEIR OFFICE SEVERAL TIMES BUT THEY TALK SHIT LI ...
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THE WORKERS OF ECG ARE NOT CORRECT LIKE YOU YOUR SELF. I VE BEEN CHASING THEM FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS TO CAPTURE MY METER AND BRING ME MY BILL BUT THEY DON'T BOTHER. I VE BEEN TO THEIR OFFICE SEVERAL TIMES BUT THEY TALK SHIT LIKE YOU SO I LL USE THE METER AND FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS, THROW IT AWAY AND GO FOR ANOTHER ONE. PERIOD
Yawavi 10 years ago

Useless and brainless human being with nothing in that head calling himself president.He has never talked sense since he stole the verdict and appointed himself as NDC president

Useless and brainless human being with nothing in that head calling himself president.He has never talked sense since he stole the verdict and appointed himself as NDC president

Quophie 10 years ago

THE GOVERNMENT IS THE No 1 THIEF. GOVERNMENT MUST PAY ITS BILLS TO THE ECG, GRIDCO AND VRA, AND THEY WILL STOP DISTURBING POOR GHANAIANS.

THE GOVERNMENT IS THE No 1 THIEF. GOVERNMENT MUST PAY ITS BILLS TO THE ECG, GRIDCO AND VRA, AND THEY WILL STOP DISTURBING POOR GHANAIANS.
Agonahene 10 years ago

Just as I blame the worsening economy of Ghana on your unbridled corruption. Thief.

Just as I blame the worsening economy of Ghana on your unbridled corruption. Thief.
KOFI WEST HAVEN 10 years ago

Pre Maham the 2nd MOST INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD. dont ask me who is the 1st. Lol.

Pre Maham the 2nd MOST INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD. dont ask me who is the 1st. Lol.
hungry man 10 years ago

even not only that 'but some of the workers of those companies don't pay their electricity bills .so that also contributes

even not only that 'but some of the workers of those companies don't pay their electricity bills .so that also contributes
OH YES 10 years ago

If there is any stealing of power causing the ever increasing tariff on electric power, then it cannot be the illegal connection that is causing the high tariff. What is causing it, is the stealing of the money, the stealing ...
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If there is any stealing of power causing the ever increasing tariff on electric power, then it cannot be the illegal connection that is causing the high tariff. What is causing it, is the stealing of the money, the stealing of the cash, the thieving of the money that should be paid to the electric power providers, by the John Mahama NDC gov't.
It is the theft of the money owed to the ECG, the VRA, the WAPCo, the NGas etc, etc by the John Mahama NDC gov't coupled with the stinking incompetence that has seen the local currency falling like a tone of bricks and experiencing a consistent uptick as one of the worst performing currencies under the John Mahama NDC gov't are some of the reasons for the inability of Ghanaians to enjoy power, even though, Ghana's installed capacity is more than adequate to ensure consistent supply of electricity 24/7.
It should be noted aside of these factors which are very pertinent, crude oil and gas which serve as the source of power generation from the thermal component of our generation mix, is at it's lowest ever in a decade and predicted to go even lower, although current utility prices do not reflect this lower cost for crude oil and gas.
The high tariff Ghanaians currently pay for power is a rip-off and a subsidization of the incompetence, thievery, mismanagement and cluelessness of the John Mahama NDC gov't and not a product of power theft as a consequence of illegal connection.
Tanko 10 years ago

The middle class in Ghana is non existent. How do you expect people to pay their electricity bill or any other bill if they are not paid on time. Nurses, Teachers etc go months and years without salary. If you are willing to ...
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The middle class in Ghana is non existent. How do you expect people to pay their electricity bill or any other bill if they are not paid on time. Nurses, Teachers etc go months and years without salary. If you are willing to not pay these people on time the why should you complain when no one pays electricity bills on time? This guy is so incompetent. He doesn't realize that everything is dependent on the other. Create jobs, pay people on time and the people will have money in their pockets to spend and pay taxes so that you can have more to develop the country. This country is run by idiots!
BONESHAHER 10 years ago

So Mahama you think you have identify the problem? You have state security doing the wrong job by raiding the offices of the NPP. I think the police should be doing policing, Mahama don't you agree with me?
The problim is th ...
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So Mahama you think you have identify the problem? You have state security doing the wrong job by raiding the offices of the NPP. I think the police should be doing policing, Mahama don't you agree with me?
The problim is that you are incompetent.
danny 10 years ago

look at this soo called thief,corrupt,incompetent mahama talking about people stealling electricity......who is a thief in this country than you....you are really truly incompetent indeed.....the question is that,do you reall ...
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look at this soo called thief,corrupt,incompetent mahama talking about people stealling electricity......who is a thief in this country than you....you are really truly incompetent indeed.....the question is that,do you really have advisers at all...cos it seems you have no idea what is going on in the country.....people cannot pay common electricity bills cos they have no job that is the truth on the ground...if you want Ghanaians to desist from stealling electricity or engaging in illegal connection then Mr,president provide ghanaians the needed jobs and they would be able to pay for their electricity bills thereby reducing all sort of illegal connection in the country and also stop stealling our money to your family and pleasssssse advise your ministers to stop stealling ghanas money cos I can see most of them are thiefs and incompetent,corrupt,unqualified as you are......
Djabatey 10 years ago

Mr. President you are very wrong, the real cause of the high tariffs is the inability of government and its associates to pay for electricity. Unless you want to say that government also steals power. It is also the genesis o ...
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Mr. President you are very wrong, the real cause of the high tariffs is the inability of government and its associates to pay for electricity. Unless you want to say that government also steals power. It is also the genesis of all the 'dumsor' problems.
John Anamse 10 years ago

It smacks of incompetence for ECG to claim that as much as 40% of power generated is stolen by Ghanaians.
If as much 40% is stolen and ECG cannot find the thieves then they have an incompetent Management which must be sacked ...
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It smacks of incompetence for ECG to claim that as much as 40% of power generated is stolen by Ghanaians.
If as much 40% is stolen and ECG cannot find the thieves then they have an incompetent Management which must be sacked immediately.
The truth is that ECG has metered 100's of thousands of houses but fails to provide monthly bills. I am not sure whether it is an act of sabotage or incompetence of management or connivance of ECG staff for personal gain.
Mr. President, you need to investigate this claim before you accept this claim of ECG as gospel truth.

Ali Mahama 10 years ago

As a leader crack your Brains and come out with solutions instead of of mere talking

As a leader crack your Brains and come out with solutions instead of of mere talking

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