Commercial Buildings With Over-aged Wiring Systems Risk Shut Down

The Energy Commission in partnership with the Ghana National Fire Service and the National Insurance Commission will from January next year undertake an audit of the state of wiring systems of all hotels and commercial buildings across the country. 

Owners of facilities with wiring systems that are 10 years or more will be directed to overhaul the wiring.

A facility which fails to comply with the directive will be considered unsafe for human habitation and closed down. 

A Lead Officer of the Certified Wiring programme of the Energy Commission, Solomon Sarpong, made this known in Kumasi at the certification of about 300 electricians who successfully undertook the certification training of the Commission.

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