The Northern Regional office of the Allied Health Professions Council are in the grips of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) for illegal power connection. The revenue monitoring team on Wednesday, April 19, upon a visit to the facility at the Regional Health Director discovered the council was stealing power.
Briefing the media, the Manager of NEDCo in charge of the Northern Operational Area, Ing Elvis Demuyakor, said the team visited the facility as part of the mass revenue mobilization which began on Tuesday, April 18, and realized the council illegally bypassed the meter that they are using with the Ghana Health Service.
“The Regional Health Directorate are on the prepaid meter, they are paying for it but the Allied Health Services section have bypass the meter direct. We don’t know when they did it, they claim they did it some few weeks ago but we will not be able to confirm that” he explained.
The Northern Area Manager hinted an investigation would be carried and the full rigors of the law applied against the institution.
“When you do illegal connection just like any other customer, we have to pick the load, analyze and then we will recover by estimating their consumption and ensure we bill them for it” Ing Elvis emphasized.
Meanwhile, the taskforce also visited the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and Tamale High Court.
THE CUSTODIAN gathered the Tamale High Court made a payment of GHS54,000 cedis last month and has also demonstrated commitment to paying their arrears in line with a payment plan.
The Billing and Revenue Protection Manager, Madam Hilda Alhassan, who disclosed this in an interview added the balance left for the court to defray is about 64,000 cedis which includes February and March bills.
On the part of EOCO, Madam Hilda said, “In our lists we have the EOCO account that we were following up on but when we got here we realized that they have a prepaid meter and they are buying power. So we agreed with them that we will go and find out what really happened because in our data system we have a lot of information and we don’t know what really happened.”
