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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Mr Anthony Bleboo, Director of Electricity and Natural Gas at the Energy Commission has advised Certified Electrical Wiring Practitioners (CEWP), to abstain from all forms of illegal connections.<\/b><\/p>\n

He said it was a criminal offense to steal power as it could attract a jail term when found guilty.<\/p>\n

Mr Bleboo gave made the advice at the 18th Certification Awards ceremony, 2023 of the Electrical Wiring Programme organised by the Energy Commission in Accra.<\/p>\n

However, 178 students were awarded certificate out of nine hundred applicants, with awardees including inspectors and practitioners.<\/p>\n

The Director said electricians must not connive with home or business owners to engage in illegal connectivity since it would cause financial burden to the country.<\/p>\n

He said the negative attitude of electricians served as impediments to national development hence, there was the need for CEWPs to be patriotic and report all customers, who sought their services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI urge all to stop illegal connection to save cost of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to function efficiently.<\/p>\n

\u201cECG is collaborating with the Judicial Service to introduce a special Utility Court to try power theft cases. All cases of meter tempering, meter by-passes, and direct connections will be treated as theft cases and will be prosecuted as such,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Mr Bleboo said \u201cthe home or business owners including the electrical professionals who are found to have undertaken these illegal connections and power thefts will be liable for prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said their CEWP certification could be suspended or withdrawn entirely in addition to a fine or sentence as may be determined by the Courts if found guilty and urged them to work with integrity and be ambassadors for ECG for payments of electricity bills.<\/p>\n

Mr Noble Akorttia, the overall best student, in an interview said, he would impact all what he had learnt from the training into others by practising hands-on training for efficient wiring of households and advised other electricians to take part in the training to get certified and add value to their work.<\/p>\n

The Electrical Wiring Programme of the Commission over the past 10 years has trained and certified over 14,000 electrical professionals<\/p>\n

These professionals are three categories including inspectors, domestic and commercials and industrial.<\/p>\n

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