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High electricity bills: I share your frustrations – Prez Mahama

As part of effort to find a speedy and sustainable solution to the issue, president Mahama wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday after a cabinet that the Inter-Agency Taskforce has been approved to deal with the matter.

 

As part of effort to find a speedy and sustainable solution to the issue, president Mahama wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday after a cabinet meeting that an Inter-Agency Taskforce has been approved to deal with the matter.

“Cabinet today approved the Inter-Agency Taskforce put together to resolve complaints from the public regarding the bills and charges being received from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in respect of our consumption of power,” president Mahama wrote on his Facebook page.

“I share the frustration of Ghanaians affected by this anomalous situation and will do everything possible to find a speedy and sustainable solution to this issue,” he added.

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The approved taskforce comprises the Energy Commission, the ECG, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) and other stakeholders.

The taskforce is expected to submit its report and solution on June 03, 2016 for immediate implementation, president Mahama added.

“The present situation has to end, and I assure my fellow Ghanaians that this too, like other challenges we have faced together, will be fixed,” he wrote.

Ghanaians and businesses have complained that they are being overcharged for the power they use.

On Tuesday, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) asked the ECG to stop the implementation of the new billing software after its investigations revealed anomaly in the billing system.

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According to a statement from the PURC and copied to Pulse.com.gh, the directive has been "necessitated by Complaints which it has received from consumers of Electricity regarding issues of overbilling."

"The Commission after a thorough investigation into the matter through our Monitoring Exercise which culminated into visits to specific areas and also interrogation of bills which were presented to consumers by the Electricity Company of Ghana, came to the conclusion that there was an anomaly in the initial implementation of the new billing software," a statement signed by Nana Yaa Jantuah, director of Public Relations and External Affairs of PURC added.

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