Power company ECG disconnects state bodies over $480m debt

ECG said it is going to be ruthless during its 30-day revenue mobilisation exercise as it pursues defaulting public and private customers including mining and manufacturing firms, who are the biggest debtors.

“Pay up or get disconnected. We are not showing any mercy. No one is untouchable,” Samuel Mahama, the managing director of ECG, tells The Africa Report.

Mahama is leading the special taskforce made up of top managers and staff of ECG and the police to…