Ghana's PURC: Investigate allegations of inflated post-paid-meter readings by some ECG staff members

Dear critical-reader, it is vital that the industry regulatory body overseeing Ghana's public utilities, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), urgently investigates the new phenomenon, of alleged inflated estimated post-paid meter consumption figure  readings by ECG meter readers.

Estimated consumption meter figure readings of post-paid ECG issued meters, in properties entered into, and in which post-paid-meters have been duly accessed, for reading,  are in effect, a nonsensical legal misnomer: because once ECG meter readers actually gain access to officially installed ECG post-paid meters, in properties nationwide, consumption figures read by them, are actual readings, not estimates. Full stop.

The phenomenon appears to be a new form of egregious digital-age extortion, being perpetrated by criminal-types within the ECG, who apparently also collaborate with crooked employees of telecommunications companies, too, when needed, to fleece hapless electricity consumers, across the length and breadth of the entire landmass of our bankrupted Republic.

That is intolerable, as our much-troubled country is unfortunately one in which the masses have had their lives suddenly turned upside down, by an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, wreaking havoc on their personal finances.

The modus operandi of such rogue ECG employees, is to demand that dissatisfied consumers take their own video recordings of the consumption figure readings of the officially installed ECG post-paid meters in their premises, and take same to their district ECG offices.

There, dear critical-reader, ECG staff members participating in, and benefiting from the ongoing alleged fraud, now being perpetrated against electricity consumers, enjoy and share a daily bonanza of massive amounts of bribe-monies - free booty offered by frustrated, frightened and vulnerable electricity
consumers: most of them desperate to avoid being disconnected and pay to be reconnected to the national electricity grid, and, who, in reality, can barely afford to put food on their tables thrice daily, if have to pay rent, on top too,in some cases, and thus have to survive on a day to day basis. Shameful. Abominable. Unspeakable. Monstrous. Unpardonable.

The PURC must act immediately, and investigate this scandalous fraud allegation, now, not tomorow. Enough, really is enough, in this example of totally unacceptable employee-grifting for personal profit, at the expense of consumers - in what after all is a state-owned utility company, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...