{"id":31708,"date":"2023-04-19T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=31708"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:32:02","slug":"airteltigo-reacts-to-misleading-reports-of-owing-ecg-gh%e2%82%b5-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/04\/19\/airteltigo-reacts-to-misleading-reports-of-owing-ecg-gh%e2%82%b5-1m\/","title":{"rendered":"AirtelTigo Reacts To \u2018Misleading\u2019 Reports Of Owing ECG GH\u20b5 1m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telecommunications company, AirtelTigo, has described as misleading some reports that they owe the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) GH\u20b5 1million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days prior, AirtelTigo was caught up with ECG during an exercise to retrieve debts owed the company, and to check for illegal connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After discussions with the management, AirtelTigo reportedly\u00a0made payment of GH\u20b51million to settle their debts to ECG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, the telco, in a latest press statement \u2013 in which they described their outfit as reputable and law-abiding \u2013 denied owing ECG an amount of GH\u20b5 1million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They clarified that all previous bills from 2022, as well as January 2023 and part of February 2023 have been duly settled as per the agreed payment plan with ECG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AirtelTigo further stated that they have handed proof of payment to the ECG and remain committed to transparency and compliance with all legal and financial objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They, by the press release, urged well-meaning Ghanaians to disregard the news and to media houses to factcheck their reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Find attached press statement below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/04\/image-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/04\/image-3-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/04\/image-3-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/04\/image-3-1-750x1000.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecommunications company, AirtelTigo, has described as misleading some reports that they owe the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) GH\u20b5 1million. Days prior, AirtelTigo was caught up with ECG during an exercise to retrieve debts owed the company, and to check for illegal connections. After discussions with the management, AirtelTigo reportedly\u00a0made payment of GH\u20b51million to settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,43,1],"tags":[8860,198,5800,12310,9127,192,12502,10321,10342,6431,6258],"class_list":["post-31708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-news","category-news","tag-airteltigo","tag-ecg","tag-electricity","tag-exercise","tag-february","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaians","tag-illegal","tag-law","tag-release","tag-transparency"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}