Tema, March 25 - Building
contractors and potential house owners have been charged to use only certified
electrical engineers from the Energy Commission to wire their houses.
Mr Emmanuel Appoe, Tema ECG
Regional Engineer, who gave the charge at a media interaction, said failure to use a certified electrician
would result in the turning down of metre application by the Electricity
Company of Ghana (ECG).
Mr Appoe said a certification
form from the electrician is required to be attached to the metre application
before it would be approved.
He disclosed that his outfit
would crosscheck with the Energy Commission for the authenticity of the
electrician who did the wiring as part of the processes to provide power to
consumers.
According to him, the move was to
ensure that proper wiring standards were adhered to for the safety of consumers
and the general public.
He therefore urged building
contractors and individuals to visit the ECG offices in their area for a list of
Energy Commission's certified electricians and their contacts instead of
relying on wayside ones.
On the need to regularly check
the electrical connections in consumers premises, he advised that every building must have a
connection chamber where they could monitor their cable connections.
He explained that without a
connection chamber, the earth cables could have a breakage and never detected,
a situation which could lead to electrical shock when one touches any wall in
the building.
The Engineer advised that owners
and occupants of buildings had regular testing of their wiring annually for
early detection of electricity currents to ensure their safety.
He also entreated landowners and
District Assemblies to desist from allowing people to site containers on
utility corridors.
He indicated that such acts made
it difficult for electrical faults on
underground cables to be worked on timely as the shops would first have to be
evacuated before the needed excavations.
Mr Appoe also cautioned the
public against building under overhead electrical cable as doing so could lead
to deaths if falling cables got into contact with such buildings and
containers.
In another development, the ECG
has started billing customers in the Krobo area in the Tema ECG region, after
residents staged series of demonstrations against the Company and prevented its
officials from operating in the area to back their request for lower tariffs.
Officials of the ECG after the
agitations in 2017, embarked on a number of strategies including engaging
customers and chiefs in the area,
intensive public education, among
others.
GNA
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