The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected from the national power grid, a nightclub at Caprice in Accra.
Managers of the facility, known as Targgetz, have also been served with a notice to appear before the ECG Project office, to be surcharged and sanctioned for using power illegally.
ECG officials who visited the facility on Friday, August 26, 2022, also found that a 3-storey hostel, attached to the nightclub, operated by Targgetz, was using about 25 air-conditioners, refrigerators and other electrical appliances through three tampered meters.
The ECG revenue mobilization taskforce uncovered the illegality as part of the company’s effort to check the condition of all meters across the country.
Managers of the facility admitted the illegality, but blamed it on the difficulty in dealing directly with ECG offices.
They noted that it’s much easier dealing with middlemen than with officials of the ECG.
CORRECTION AND RETRACTION
The original headline of this story and a number of sentences have been corrected to show that the facility is not being operated by Boomerang. Boomerang used to operate there, but seized operations about two decades ago. It is now a different entity [Targgetz] that is running the nightclub and a hostel. We retract and apologise for any inconvenience the original story caused the management of Boomerang.