{"id":87718,"date":"2015-02-02T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=87718"},"modified":"2015-02-02T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:03:57","slug":"ecg-gagged-publishing-load-shedding-timetable-kofi-kapito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=87718","title":{"rendered":"ECG gagged from publishing load shedding timetable \u00a0&#8211; Kofi Kapito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Protection Agency, a consumer right agency, Kofi Capito has accused the government of preventing the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) from making their load shedding timetable public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;s1wBsgmzsrYhnjduHEsFBw7MKIwmpUha&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> Kofi Capito said government is afraid of the reaction of Ghanaians to such schedule hence the decision to stop the ECG from publishing the load shedding schedule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will be honest with you ECG has a timetable. I am aware that policy makers don\u2019t want the public to know about the timetable. We know they have started using that unofficial timetable and officially you and I do not know about that timetable. Because somebody, a policymaker, or government, or minister or regulator is afraid to talk about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some consumers over the past few weeks have complained about the\u00a0failure\u00a0of the ECG to publish a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/09\/19\/short-term-load-shedding-utter-nonsense-wereko-brobby\/\" target=\"_blank\">load shedding timetable<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to help them plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cECG doesn\u2019t have the generation and it is about the generation of electricity. If someone is unable to tell them that is how much I have on a daily basis or an hourly basis how do you want them to communicate to you so you plan,\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Protection Agency, a consumer right agency, Kofi Capito has accused the government of preventing the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) from making their load shedding timetable public. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;s1wBsgmzsrYhnjduHEsFBw7MKIwmpUha&#8221;]Speaking to Citi News, Kofi Capito said government is afraid of the reaction of Ghanaians to such schedule hence the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"tags":[43,38,4],"class_list":["post-87718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}