{"id":1265642,"date":"2022-12-15T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/ya-na-warns-dagbon-over-illegal-connections\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:15:17","slug":"ya-na-warns-dagbon-over-illegal-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/ya-na-warns-dagbon-over-illegal-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ya Na warns Dagbon over illegal connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"438\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mini_Napo-696x438.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Napo Ya Na\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ya Naa with Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh at Gbewa palace in Yendi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The King of Dagbon, Ndan Ya Na Abubakari II, has sent a strong warning to the people of Dagbon to desist from engaging in illegal connections in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I want to make a passionate appeal to the general public to desist from engaging in illegal power connections and attacks on staff of our power providers who go about their rightful duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Northern region is one of the places with a high rate of power theft which has resulted in NEDCo\/VRA losing about GHS 8.5million which is about 45 per cent of revenue in the region every month due to power theft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>According to the Dagbon King, illegal connections do not only deny government from generating enough revenue to continue with the provision of power to communities but also a recipe for fire outbreaks and electrocution which cost the customers much more.<\/p>\n<p>He was optimistic that despite the current economic challenges in the country , government will continue to pay the needed attention to the urgent needs of Dagbon.<\/p>\n<p>The King of Dagbon made this known when the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, paid him a courtesy call ahead of the launch of the NEDCo Special Revenue Protection Taskforce at the Gbewa Palace at Yendi.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Minister called for the support of the King of Dagbon to help officials of NEDCo with the installation of new pre-paid meters at Dagbon to help the rigorous revenue mobilization drive for NEDCo for its operational areas.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Iwc660YoyKw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kuro Mo Aye Hye Anaa - Parents reduce number of dresses for children due to cost - (15-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iwc660YoyKw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya Naa with Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh at Gbewa palace in Yendi The King of Dagbon, Ndan Ya Na Abubakari II, has sent a strong warning to the people of Dagbon to desist from engaging in illegal connections in the Northern Region. \u201c I want to make a passionate appeal to the general public to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265642","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=1265642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}