Bright Simons, vice president of IMANI Africa, has issued a warning to Ghanaian politicians, saying, "The software glitches at ECG are a reminder to Ghanaian leaders to think critically as they continue to push this erroneous idea of centralizing all civic services in one Ghana Card database."

In response to a ransomware or zero-day exploit, he tweeted that the nation would shut down.

His statement follows the technical issue that is preventing smooth service delivery to prepaid consumers in several operational areas of the nation.

For the past few days, some ECG customers have been unable to add more electric power credit to their prepaid meters.

The problem which started on Monday is yet to be fixed.

The technical challenge has affected customers in 10 operational regional areas of the ECG in Volta, Kumasi, Accra, Takoradi, Tema, Cape Coast, Kasoa, Winneba, Swedru, Koforidua, Nkawkaw, and Tafo.

Meanwhile, the state-power distributor has announced the extension of working hours at all district offices across the country this weekend.