GBA Fails To Pay Bill, Power Supply Cut

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has since Monday, disconnected electricity supply to the Television transmitting station at Kissi near Komenda, because the Ghana the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) could not pay accumulated bills of over 100 million cedis.

The Central Regional Director of the GBC, Mr. Kwabena Sarpong-Anane, told the Ghana News Agency at Cape Coast on Wednesday that officials of the ECG office in Cape Coast informed him that they received a directive from the Headquarters, in Accra to disconnect power supply to the station.

The action is affecting 'Radio Central', the GBC FM station in Cape Coast for similar reasons.

Mr. Sarpong-Anane said the Corporation pays about 15 million cedis for electricity supply to the television station every month, as against between five and six million cedis before the introduction of the new electricity tariffs.