- GRIDco experiences transmission line threats.
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDco) have announced the formation of a Right-of-Way to curtail the activities of encroachers on transmission lines. The Chief Executive Officer of GRIDco, Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi, who made this known, emphasised that the invaders could cause the wires to snap or sag, triggering electrical accidents.
Mr Essienyi, speaking to the press in Accra on the company’s activities, said the Task Force would police all transmission towers, Right-of-Way and lands bordering the transmission lines. He disclosed that some of the major urban areas the Task Force would be deployed are Kumasi, Obuasi, Takoradi, Tarkwa, Winneba, Tema, Accra, Kejebi and Tafo. Further hinting that all settlers and encroachers on the Right-of-Way would be sanctioned according to the law.
He, therefore, cautioned the general public to desist from settling in and around transmission lines.
“The encroachment of the Right-of-Way is an offence under the Transmission Line Protection Regulations, 1967 (LI 542). It was amended in 2004 by Regulation No. LI 1737 to bar persons or institutions from conducting any form of activities around the location of power transmission lines and towers in Ghana,” Essienyi noted.