The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) says its revenue collection has gone up by four per cent in the Danyame District in Kumasi where 17 consumers were arrested for illegal power connection.

They are among 21 defaulting customers picked up on Friday in a debt recovery exercise which was also extended to Suame District.

ECG officials say on Friday alone indebted consumers paid over 160, thousand Ghana cedis over the previous average daily collection of 90,000 Ghana cedis.

Danyame District Manager, Harrison Musah Yakubu, confirms six of the 17 people arrested have since settled their bills in full.

He says more of them are expected to pay up by close of work on Monday to avoid prosecution.

Revenue drop at Danyame District had hit less than 50 percent of weekly target of over one million Ghana cedis, prompting Friday’s recovery exercise.

Twenty-one people, including seven women, were arrested for illegal connection of electricity.

They were picked up in separate operations by the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Danyame and Suame Districts.

Seventeen consumers at Danyame who together owe the ECG over 200, 000 Ghana cedis restored supply to themselves after they were disconnected.