Some workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have alleged that there was a conspiracy to get the former Managing Director of the company sacked.
According to them, they have every reason to believe their claims because since the dismissal of their boss, there is a sudden improvement in the energy situation in the country.
“Why is it that we were having these power outages and having low rates in the transmission, and all of a sudden, when the Managing Director was relieved of his post, things picked up?” asked the chairman of the workers union of the ECG at the Accra East Region office, Benjamin Kanusey.
[contextly_sidebar id=”It0ly96mJ6LgPlAMXOzQh6ObqaK5IkxR”]Some workers of ECG have been demonstrating since last Friday over the removal of their Managing Director, Rev. Ing. William Hutton-Mensah.
Rev. Hutton-Mensah was in a statement from the Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Prosper Bani, was ordered to report to the Energy Ministry for re-assignment.
The Head of Procurement of ECG, Robert Dwamena has since been appointed to act.
But the ECG workers are demanding the re-instatement of their former boss and threatening to cut off power to the whole country should their demand not be met.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, Benjamin Kanusey clarified that they are not making any threats but they are “only pleading; we are not forcing government.”
“We know the man, we think there are other forces that have fallen from somewhere trying to soil the good work that the man has done,” he claimed.
Kanusey further pointed out that the workers are suspicious of the sudden improvement in energy distribution by the ECG.
According to him, “the day the man was sacked; it was that day that we didn’t have our power off. If TICO or VRA is telling us that they cannot give us much power for us to distribute, why is it that all of a sudden, when the man was relieved of his post, we have power and there was no light off?”
The erratic power supply worsened in the last two weeks without any clear explanations.
The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, K. T. Hammond has also accused government of scapegoating the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) boss by dismissing him.
He remarked that Rev. Ing. William Hutton-Mensah’s dismissal will not bring an end to the deepening energy crisis the country is saddled with.
“I think it’s kind of scapegoating the guy. I am not so sure but if he has been sacked, I am not so sure it is the beginning of finding the solution to the myriad of problems that we have,” said KT Hammond.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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