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The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has directed all oil companies operating at the Takoradi Air-Force Base who are reported to have defaulted in the payment of their electricity bills to immediately settle all outstanding bills or face ejection from the base. An undercover investigation by the Electricity Company of Ghana last year revealed that nine oil companies including Tullow Oil, Kosmos Energy and HESS had failed to pay their electricity bills running into millions of Ghana cedis. Officials of the oil companies however denied the reports. Officials of the Ghana Armed Forces, the oil companies and ECG have been meeting for sometime now in a bid to settle the recent impasse of non-payment of electricity bills by the oil companies. According to the spokesperson of GAF, Colonel Mbawine Atintande following a meeting of the three parties yesterday, the GAF has directed all the oil companies to pay up immediately. Colonel Atintande also dismissed assertions that the Air Force was charging oil companies for electricity and was using the money to carry out its operations.