MAGAZINE/WOOD VILLAGE REQUEST

    Workers at the Suame Light Industrial Area, popularly called Suame Magazine, and the Sokoban Wood Village, both in Kumasi, have requested the Electricity Company of Ghana for their own separate electric transformers to guarantee them of reliable power supply during business hours.

 Workers at the Suame Magazine have even made a special appeal to managers of the National Grid to as much as possible exempt the Magazine from the prevailing national load shedding exercise so as to help the Light Industrial Area to remain in active business without compromising on the contribution to the national economy. 

Sharing their concerns with officials of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, PURC, during separate interactions, workers at the Suame Magazine emphasized that if urgent measures are not taken by the authorities, most of the entrepreneurs will go out of business outright insisting that they are currently being hard hit by the impact of the load management.

 They disclosed that on the average, the enclave enjoys power supply during the day for only two days in a week and cannot also tell when the power would be available to them to work. In spite of the problem, the workers complained bitterly of overbilling by the ECG. The situation, they warned if not checked could compel them to take certain actions that would not augur well for the larger society. 

They commended Ghana Water Company Limited for buying airtime on GBC’s Garden City Radio where every morning residents of Kumasi who have problems with potable water supply report for prompt actions. At the Sokoban Wood Village where about six thousand wood workers and other traders are doing their businesses, the workers asked for an office of the ECG for them to promptly lodge their complaints for solutions.

 They as well asked for the provision of functional street lighting systems as part of security measures to check the high incidence of thievery and murder cases that happen within the enclave. The wood workers also complained about the failure of the ECG to adhere to the load shedding timetable and over billing as against the inadequate power they receive.