Gomoa residents appeal to Energy Minister as termites destroy electricity poles

Danger looms on residents of Gomoa Nduem as twelve high tension electricity poles supplying power to the town have been virtually destroyed by termites and are on the verge of collapse.

Nana Kwame Arhin, Tufuhene of Nduem and his elders, conducted the Ghana News Agency round to inspect the destroyed poles on Saturday.

The Tufuhene said all the termites infested poles can fall at any time and the active power lines can unfurl untold disasters in the town adding that the untreated poles were erected in 1993 through a self-help project under the Rural Electrification Programme.

Nana Arhin said several petitions to the Winneba Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the ECG Regional Office in Cape Coast for replacement of the poles are yet to receive attention.

He said another petition to the Gomoa West District Assembly highlighting the imminent the danger and the precariousness of the situation has not also received any attention.

Nana Arhin said it would not be proper for these authorities to wait for disaster to occur before a solution is found to the problem.

He said “the situation has become a headache to the people, we are sitting on time bomb that could explode and kill us any time”.

He, therefore, appealed to the Energy Minister to intervene in the matter to save them from their present predicament.

Mr Stephen Agyei, Winneba District Officer of ECG, in an interview with the GNA confirmed that the chiefs had sent a petition on the situation to the Company and this has been forwarded to Cape Coast Regional Office for action.

Source: GNA