Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, says the company will sustain its mass disconnection exercise indefinitely.

According to him, due to the failure of both private and public institutions to pay their electricity tariff arrears, it is necessary to keep up the campaign in order to mobilise much needed revenue for the company to pay its suppliers.

The Electricity Company of Ghana has asked its customers to pay up or get disconnected.

That is the message the company has for defaulting companies, private and public customers as it undertakes an ambitious programme to recover GH₵5.7 billion owed by its customers.

Private manufacturing industries and mining firms are the highest debtors, followed by some government institutions.

Speaking on PM Express, Samuel Mahama noted that the mass disconnection exercise will keep these institutions on alert to pay up or face disconnection.

He noted that the exercise will be scheduled for the last week of every month, and all staff of the company will partake in the revenue mobilisation campaign.

“The truth of the matter is that at a certain point, you expect everybody to take up their responsibilities because you don’t want to be going there all the time. But it has come to our notice that moving forward this exercise has to be sustained.

“So we’re looking at a formula where hopefully the last week of every month, ECG’s administrative staff and everybody joins in because what’s our mandate here? We sell reliable power and collect the money. Collections are done, so if we don’t go out there to collect, what are our moral rights in here?” he said.

He has stressed that the revenue mobilization campaign has no political undertones and is not meant to slight or embarrass any affected person.