The Alliance for Young Entrepreneurs (AYE) will by close of this week file a suit against the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).<\/p>\n
The action against the ECG is due to the power provider\u2019s failure to religiously follow its load shedding time table<\/a><\/span>,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0a situation the group says is affecting their operations.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”v9EPaLBKtobzn45QW4kMnsQEPP8UNhMo”]The Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs is a national network of young entrepreneurs and business leaders in Ghana, mostly between the ages of 20 and 40 years created to champion entrepreneurship and Job creation by young people for National Development.<\/p>\n The chairman of AYE,\u00a0Alain Gbeasor\u00a0on Eyewitness News<\/strong> disclosed that the group is currently deliberating with its lawyers \u201cto see which aspects of the law they will use to start the action.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision to go to court according to him came up at a sensitization meeting the leadership of AYE was having with its members \u201cand most of them were complaining about the toll this energy crisis was having on their businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are in a crunch meeting and we expect that midweek or hopefully by close of week, something should be out there already,\u201d Mr. Gbeasor\u00a0disclosed.<\/p>\n He further lamented that the members of the group are unable to meet business deadlines due to situation which is gravely affecting their credibility as business owners.<\/p>\n According to him, AYE acknowledges the energy crisis the nation is presently facing, \u201cbut if you [ECG] are saying that you have a schedule, let us stick to it so that we can work.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the ECG of always finds \u201cmeans and ways to do things anyhow but at the end of the day, they will send you a bill and they will expect you to pay same\u2026and we are preparing to go to court.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the month, we pay our monies to ECG and we expect that they should be held accountable for whatever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Asked why the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) are not being joined in the suit, Mr. Biaso\u00a0said: \u201cThe main agreement between us is with the ECG. I have not signed any contract with the VRA, I have not done anything with GRIDCo.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI feel that there are excuses they always give us and at the end of the day, it is ECG that comes for money from me and if I don\u2019t pay, the ECG takes me to court and not the VRA so at the end of the day, if I want a certain retribution, I go to the ECG,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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