The renowned Ghanaian school Accra Academy Senior High School was left without electricity on Monday, February 19, 2024, due to an outage caused by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
A school teacher, who wished to remain nameless in an exclusive interview with Citi News, bemoaned the dreadful circumstances and called it the worst day of his thirty-one-year teaching career. He conveyed his deep dismay at the sudden cutoff of power, pointing out that even instructors living on campus with pre-paid meters had their power cut off.
I’ve been a teacher for almost 31 years, and it is the saddest day of my life. Reflecting the dissatisfaction and hopelessness shared by the school personnel, the teacher said, “I’ve never seen this anywhere.”
The instructor, who wished to remain nameless, described the scenario as distressing and unprecedented and emphasized that the school was innocent when it came to paying electrical bills. He urged the government to step in immediately and make sure that an agreement was reached with the ECG so that the school’s power supply could be restored.
Accra Academy Senior High School’s power outage is a result of the Electricity Company of Ghana’s ongoing, vigorous debt collection campaign. Following an aggressive collection campaign that began last year, the ECG has successfully disconnected a number of public and private entities from the national grid.
