The Accra Academy Senior High School (SHS) finds itself in darkness as the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected its power due to alleged unpaid arrears.
According to a report by Citi News’ Fauzu Masawudu at 8:40 pm, the entire campus was without electricity, forcing students to rely on torchlights for studying.
A teacher, speaking anonymously, expressed grave concern, describing the situation as unprecedented in his 31-year teaching career. He recounted being alerted by a colleague about ECG officials arriving on campus to disconnect the power due to outstanding debts. The teacher mentioned that even the teachers, who use prepaid meters, had their power supply cut off.
Despite pleas and negotiation attempts, the ECG officials, purportedly from the head office, remained resolute in their decision to disconnect the power.
The teacher implored the Electricity Company to restore power to the school, citing worries about student safety and the potential negative impact on teaching and learning.
“In fact, today is the saddest day in my life as a teacher who has worked for over 31 years. I have never seen this anywhere… I got a call from one of my colleagues that the ECG guys are on campus and their main mission is to disconnect the school because of some kind of indebtedness, and to be frank, we are not the ones who are supposed to pay this amount to them, and what pains me is that the teachers who are staying on campus, they are on prepaid and they have all been disconnected and currently we have about 3000 students who are in school and look at the situation we find ourselves. So if something happens to any of the students who is going to be blamed for what has happened.”
“…And then we called those who came in, and they said powers from above say they should disconnect us because of that amount that we owe. We don’t even know how much we owe because we are not the ones who are supposed to pay…we have done everything possible for them not to do what we are currently going through, but they never listened to us. Simply because they said they were sent from their headquarters to come and do this exercise…So I am appealing to the ECG leaders that at least they have students in schools and if that is the way they were treated when they were in school I am not sure they would have gotten to this level. So I am appealing to them that they should come back and do the needful.”
