Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho
THE Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited is to replace 700 wooden electric poles with concrete ones along major transmission lines in the Volta Region.
It is one of the effective measures being adopted by the ECG to arrest the growing incidents of bush fires destroying wooden poles.
The company has so far procured 210 concrete poles estimated at GH¢379,650, to start the implementation of the project in the region.
The Volta Regional Director of the ECG, Mr Felix Fiebor, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic last Monday, said a contract had also been awarded to 12 contractors for the construction of fire belts around wooden poles.
He said various routes had been categorised into lots in 11 districts to guide the contractors.
Mr Fiebor said another treatment plan had been identified with the use of aluminium foils to clothe the wooden poles, adding that pilot schemes had been started in the Eastern Region and Dambai in the northern sector of the Volta Region.
He said the region incurred a loss of GH¢114,000 due to the damaging effects of bush fires on wooden electric poles.
The regional director attributed the causes of bush fires to Fulanis, game hunting, smoking and palm wine tapping, and wondered why no culprits had been arrested and prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to the public.
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