{"id":392972,"date":"2017-05-29T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/photos-ecg-under-attack-over-extremely-outrageous-bills\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:34:50","slug":"photos-ecg-under-attack-over-extremely-outrageous-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/photos-ecg-under-attack-over-extremely-outrageous-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: ECG under attack over &#8216;extremely outrageous&#8217; bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Eastern regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana office has come under attack from residents angry over &#8216;outrageous&#8217; utility bills.<\/p>\n<p>Sticks, stones, broken glasses and dirtied walls tell the tale of a spontaneous attack on the Somanya building of the power distribution company\u00a0which began at about 11 am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ECG Somanya\" class=\"img-polaroid img-rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8368292745616_1256594624577.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:673px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:506px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1207328520\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was after the protesters had waited for over an hour for a response from management without getting any.<\/p>\n<p>Sizing up the intrusion and bracing for violence, the staff remain locked\u00a0inside the building awaiting rescue from the police.<\/p>\n<p>While the staff\u00a0wait for help, the police are also waiting for reinforcements as there are 10 officers facing the throng in their hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>Recounting the incident to myjoyonline.com, a resident Nakotey, explained that the crowd emerged impulsively after ECG embarked on an early morning mass disconnection exercise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ECG Somanya office\" class=\"img-polaroid img-rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4921266267696_7460023591450.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:96%; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:80%\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3710277854\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The disconnection exercise was to try and compel clients to settle mounting debts.<\/p>\n<p>But it infuriated the community that has been complaining about &#8216;extremely outrageous&#8217; billing system for close to a year.<\/p>\n<p>Nakotey explained that some residents in compound houses who used to share\u00a0 GHC200 now have to share between GHC1,500 and GHC2,000.<\/p>\n<p>Some bills have piled up to 7,500 in a community of small businesses, traders and farmers.<\/p>\n<p>For months without success, they have drawn the attention of the company to the perceived anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the mass disconnection exercise as adding insult to injury, their tolerance level snapped triggering an uncoordinated march to the newly commissioned office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The protesters are reported to have\u00a0defaced the building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ECG Somanya\" class=\"img-polaroid img-rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7552963217409_2367470198621.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:681px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:537px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3286173440\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some youths wielding cutlasses and cudgels nearly inflicted wounds on a man believed to be a staff of the company, but less angry protesters prevailed on the more incensed to spare the man&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The Yilo Krobo MP Magnus Kofi Amoatey abandoned efforts to calm the throng after early efforts failed to dissuade them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern regional office of the Electricity Company of Ghana office has come under attack from residents angry over &#8216;outrageous&#8217; utility bills. 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