{"id":244916,"date":"2016-09-01T16:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244916"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:08:54","slug":"puwu-concerns-over-ecg-privatization-yet-to-be-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/puwu-concerns-over-ecg-privatization-yet-to-be-addressed\/","title":{"rendered":"PUWU concerns over ECG privatization yet to be addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) has denied reports that it reached an agreement with the Millennium Development Authority, (MIDA) and the Ministry of Power for a roadmap to address their protests against the privatization of\u00a0the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).<\/p>\n<p>According to PUWU, the three will be meeting on\u00a0Thursday, September 8, as the meeting scheduled for last Tuesday ended without any concrete resolution.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QJKjV7ASbxIc3Jj146rHUzens8scTRFe&#8221;]The Deputy Power Minister John Jinapor, had\u00a0already said\u00a0the meeting would see PUWU partake in the development of a\u00a0roadmap to address their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> the General Secretary of PUWU, Michael Adumatta Nyantakyi, maintained that there is still the need to clear the air on the matter because no consensus was reached with the Power Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Nyantakyi, \u201cWe didn\u2019t agree on any road map. All that we agreed was that there will be another meeting on Thursday September 8 to discuss whatever issues.Even specific issues were not raised at all. We did not go into any discussion on any substantive issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however said \u201cit is when we meet then we will know what issues are going to be tabled and that will inform the discussion before we can even talk of a road map.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protests over privatisation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These meetings have been necessitated by protests from workers of ECG, also members of PUWU, who demonstrated against the concessionary agreement which will cede the management of the company to a private entity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ECGdemo5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-242561\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ECGdemo5-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"ECGdemo5\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workers have been\u00a0demanding a review of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which seeks to privatize part of ECG.<\/p>\n<p>PUWU also urged government to rescind its decision to sign onto the compact which could also lead to lay-offs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018ECG privatization\u2019 won\u2019t lead to lay-offs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has howver\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/31\/ecg-privatization-wont-lead-to-lay-offs-mida\/\"><strong>downplayed assertions<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by PUWU that the MCC compact will impact negatively on ECG and result in lay-offs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_244351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244351\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1685858033079_4631151319274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244351\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1685858033079_4631151319274.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Executive Officer of MiDA, Owura Kwaku Sarfo\" width=\"550\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Executive Officer of MiDA, Owura Kwaku Sarfo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MiDA in a statement, responding to PUWU\u2019s reservations for the first time, assured that\u00a0\u201cthe government of Ghana had gone to great extents to ensure that the jobs of all ECG workers are duly protected for a period of 5 years. It is therefore regrettable that PUWU continues to allege that there will be job losses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that, the concession arrangement will create more jobs in the power sector,\u201d MiDA noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) has denied reports that it reached an agreement with the Millennium Development Authority, (MIDA) and the Ministry of Power for a roadmap to address their protests against the privatization of\u00a0the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). 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