{"id":314878,"date":"2017-04-29T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314878"},"modified":"2017-04-29T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:00:22","slug":"vra-still-owes-gas-suppliers-wapco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314878","title":{"rendered":"VRA still owes gas suppliers &#8211; WAPCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> can confirm that Ghana is yet to settle outstanding debts owed Nigeria Gas Company and subsequently, the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo).<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tYMef6mdB2exw2GOKHri0d2DStMgSHeD&#8221;]There were recent reports that government had settled all debts owed N-Gas hence WAPCo.<\/p>\n<p>But WAPCo has denied receiving any payment for the debts estimated at 100 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The erstwhile NDC government last year reached an agreement with the stakeholders to ring-fence the debt as government commits to pay them under agreed terms.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager for Finance and Administration at WAPCo, Mike Enendu explained the current situation to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell I don\u2019t know where that information is coming from but I believe WAPCo and the government knows the true situation of the debt so I don\u2019t know who puts out the information to the public. But I am not sure that is from the government but obviously that is not from WAPCo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween WAPCo and the government we are aware of what the debt situation is and I think for us that is what it should be. There are still some monies to be paid,\u201dhe added.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> at the sidelines of the 2<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">nd\u00a0<\/span>WAPCo vendor forum in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The forum which brought together suppliers and contractors already in business or seeking to do business with WAPCo was organized to develop local content capacity among participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi Business News can confirm that Ghana is yet to settle outstanding debts owed Nigeria Gas Company and subsequently, the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo). [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tYMef6mdB2exw2GOKHri0d2DStMgSHeD&#8221;]There were recent reports that government had settled all debts owed N-Gas hence WAPCo. But WAPCo has denied receiving any payment for the debts estimated at 100 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171,170,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-oil-and-gas","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}