President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe is insisting that some staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will certainly be laid off in governments move to privatize the company.<\/p>\n
Government has assured that no worker will be dismissed in the process but the IMANI Ghana boss speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s News analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong> argued otherwise.<\/p>\n He explained that documents covering the concessionary arrangement suggests that some of the workers will lose their jobs.<\/p>\n \u201cThey will lay off some workers. Part of the money from the Millennium Challenge Account is supposed to be used in doing the retrenchment and settling them\u2026I\u2019ve got the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n But a member of the National Democratic Congress\u2019 legal team, Abraham Amaliba who was also on the show mounted a spirited defense insisting that such will not happened.<\/p>\n He explained that \u201cfrom the government\u2019s perspective, John Jinapor [Deputy Minister of Power] made that abundantly clear that the retrenchment will not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n ECG workers kick against privitisation<\/strong><\/p>\n Workers of ECG had kicked against moves by government privatize the company.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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