The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has responded to claims made by Rehoboth Estate regarding unpaid meter supplies and allegations of power theft at its Kweiman Social Housing Estate.
In a recent statement, Rehoboth Estate insisted it had paid for electricity meters in 2023, accusing ECG of failing to deliver due to supply constraints.
However, ECG paints a different picture. The company stated that although Rehoboth applied for meters on July 4, 2023, no payment was made that year.
Instead, payment for 20 meters was received only on June 17, 2025, a day after ECG disconnected the estate for illegal power usage.
ECG also disclosed that during a meeting on the same day, Rehoboth Estate Management admitted that 83 of their apartments were directly connected to the national grid without meters.
A formal notice was signed, and each of the implicated apartments is now expected to pay GHC 19,247.40 to recover costs related to the illegal connections.
In addition to the apartments, a block factory operating within the estate was also found to be using power unlawfully. ECG has since disconnected it and says that the matter is being handled separately.
Mary Eshun-Oppong, Communications Officer for ECG’s Accra East region, stated, “We remain dedicated to transparency in our work and call on all customers to support our efforts in tackling illegal power usage”.
