ECG disconnects Accra Academy from power grid over debt

ECG disconnects Accra Academy from the power grid over debt, which has left the school in total darkness.

Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disconnection at Accra Academy Senior High School (SHS) for claimed unpaid arrears has left the school without electricity.

According to Citi News’ Fauzu Masawudu, who arrived at the campus at 8:40 p.m., the whole place was dark and students were studying with the help of torchlights in their classes.

ECG disconnects Accra Academy from power grid over debt but there are questions to be answered

The question is: who pays the utility bills of public schools? If it is the government, then this move by the ECG makes no economic or moral sense.

Who issued the directive for the action, and was the school informed about their bills?

How teachers of the school reacted to the power cut

A concerned educator who preferred to remain anonymous voiced his astonishment at the incident, calling it a first in his teaching experience.

A coworker had told him that ECG authorities were going to the school to cut electricity because of unpaid bills, and he had no idea.

Additionally, he mentioned that the electricity was disconnected from the instructors who were on campus and had prepaid metres.

No amount of pleading or negotiating could sway the ECG personnel, who falsely claimed to be from headquarters, from their order to cut electricity, as the instructor pointed out.

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The educator is worried about the pupils’ well-being and how the power outage would affect classroom instruction, so she has asked the Electricity Company to fix the school’s electricity.

“In fact, today is the saddest day in my life as a teacher who has worked for over 31 years. I have never seen this anywhere… I got a call from one of my colleagues that the ECG guys are on campus and their main mission is to disconnect the school because of some kind of indebtedness, and to be frank, we are not the ones who are supposed to pay this amount to them, and what pains me is that the teachers who are staying on campus, they are on prepaid and they have all been disconnected and currently we have about 3000 students who are in school and look at the situation we find ourselves. So if something happens to any of the students who is going to be blamed for what has happened.”

“…And then we called those who came in, and they said powers from above say they should disconnect us because of that amount that we owe. We don’t even know how much we owe because we are not the ones who are supposed to pay…we have done everything possible for them not to do what we are currently going through, but they never listened to us. Simply because they said they were sent from their headquarters to come and do this exercise…So I am appealing to the ECG leaders that at least they have students in schools and if that is the way they were treated when they were in school I am not sure they would have gotten to this level. So I am appealing to them that they should come back and do the needful,” he stated.