{"id":171387,"date":"2014-03-18T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/ecgs-prepaid-meters-emitting-fire-in-new-bortianor\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T21:36:00","slug":"ecgs-prepaid-meters-emitting-fire-in-new-bortianor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/03\/18\/ecgs-prepaid-meters-emitting-fire-in-new-bortianor\/","title":{"rendered":"ECG&#8217;s prepaid meters emitting fire in New Bortianor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/03\/51c1240x_mg_chwj0nma87_589031475_960680.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NTMwMjk4';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<p>Residents in New Bortianor in Accra are complaining of \u00a0poor quality pre-paid meter which they claim is\u00a0emitting fire.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Reverend Stephen Apau told Myjoyonline.com, two of such pre-paid meters caught fire Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>But for the quick response of neighbours, who put out the fire, a disaster would have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>He said when they called officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to alert them of the incident, the ECG officials promised to come and have a look at the pre-paid meters Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The meters are mostly fixed on electric poles outside the homes of users.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there have been similar cases of burnt meters around the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>This article has <b>0<\/b> comment,  leave your comment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Residents in New Bortianor in Accra are complaining of \u00a0poor quality pre-paid meter which they claim is\u00a0emitting fire.One of the residents, Reverend Stephen Apau told Myjoyonline.com, two of such pre-paid meters caught&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}