{"id":1053066,"date":"2022-04-11T18:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/11\/ug-risks-being-disconnected-from-power-grid-over-gh%c2%a233m-debt-it-owes-ecg\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T18:52:37","slug":"ug-risks-being-disconnected-from-power-grid-over-gh%c2%a233m-debt-it-owes-ecg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/11\/ug-risks-being-disconnected-from-power-grid-over-gh%c2%a233m-debt-it-owes-ecg\/","title":{"rendered":"UG risks being disconnected from power grid over GH\u00a233M debt it owes ECG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s premier university, the University of Ghana, risks being disconnected from the national power grid if it fails to pay a GH\u00a233 million debt it owes the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) within the next 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A disconnection notice has been served on the university, and any further delay will leave the power distributor with no option than to plunge the university into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>The debt which is classified into two with different metering numbers indicates that, the university owes GH\u00a210, 926,147.53 and GH\u00a222, 102,459.04 on both metres.<\/p>\n<p>Citi News sources indicate that, as of January 2021, the University of Ghana made a total bill payment of about GH\u00a210.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>ECG has aggressively declared war on heavily non-compliant debtors who have over the period used power without recourse to accumulated debts.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to recover part of its liabilities, ECG has listed some 29 institutions (both private and public) for disconnection after a three-day working ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p>University of Professional Studies, Accra suffered a similar fate last week when power was cut to its administration block and auditorium over a GH1.6 million debt.<\/p>\n<p>ECG has cautioned its clients to redeem their indebtedness in order to avoid any embarrassment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s premier university, the University of Ghana, risks being disconnected from the national power grid if it fails to pay a GH\u00a233 million debt it owes the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) within the next 72 hours. A disconnection notice has been served on the university, and any further delay will leave the power distributor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1580,6204,6082,7346,6205,4062,448,7347],"class_list":["post-1053066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-debt","tag-disconnected","tag-ecg","tag-gh33m","tag-grid","tag-owes","tag-power","tag-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}