{"id":273256,"date":"2011-01-09T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45771"},"modified":"2011-01-09T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:08:39","slug":"rising-against-stupidity-charges-on-ecg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/09\/rising-against-stupidity-charges-on-ecg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rising Against Stupidity&#8217; Charges On ECG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-32608\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/11\/purc-ecg-given-a-2-week-ultimatum\/ecg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32608\" title=\"ecg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ecg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>Some youth of La-Wireless, an area  within the La Community in Accra, yesterday stormed the offices of Daily  Guide to register their frustration at the hands of the Electricity  Company of Ghana (ECG).<br \/>\nThe group, Rising Against Stupidity  (RAS), said they had decided to take this measure because it seemed the  service providers were taking them for a ride.<br \/>\nAccording to RAS,  they had experienced constant power outages in areas such as Birthday,  Wireless, Anansekrom, Burkina, Nataso, Luu Furniture and Apaapa for many  years but the situation seemed to have worsened at the latter part of  2010.<br \/>\nGabriel Adenyoh, a member of the group, told Daily Guide  that they had the worst Christmas celebration ever this year. Meat and  other food items bought for the celebration ended up in the rubbish dump  simply because the constant power outages destroyed their freezers and  other electrical appliances.<br \/>\n\u201cMaster, the worse of it is that  whenever you call their help line, (0203611611) a machine picks up the  call and puts you on hold, wasting your credit for close to five minutes  before you are attended to, and when an operator answers the call, the  only thing they tell you is \u2018we are sorry for the inconvenience\u2019,\u201d  Gabriel fumed.<br \/>\nAnother member of the group, who gave his name as  Sylvanus, noted that they never got reasons for the outages from the  call receivers because it seemed they knew little about the situation on  the ground.<br \/>\nHe claimed the constant power outages were hampering  his advertising business and other works in the area. According to him,  residents spent the whole yuletide in darkness, adding that on 31st  night when one needed light to \u2018walk\u2019 into the New Year, the ECG decided  to plunge them into darkness. \u201cEven if it is an overload on the  transformer, can\u2019t it be solved? Do we need expatriates to point it out  to us before something is done about it,\u201d the group queried.<br \/>\nThe  group used the opportunity to call on the MP for La Dadekotopon and  Deputy Minister of Agric, Nii Amasa Namoale to use his noble office to  address the problem. \u201cWe will be very much grateful if the MP can act on  this request for us so that we can work and live in peace in his tenure  of office,\u201d the group concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some youth of La-Wireless, an area within the La Community in Accra, yesterday stormed the offices of Daily Guide to register their frustration at the hands of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). 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