{"id":257345,"date":"2016-10-12T06:31:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=257345"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T06:31:56","slug":"ecg-privatisation-court-to-hear-injunction-suit-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/ecg-privatisation-court-to-hear-injunction-suit-today\/","title":{"rendered":"ECG privatisation: Court to hear injunction suit today"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Accra High Court will today [Wednesday] hear an interlocutory injunction case filed against the government on its plans to cede part of the operations of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to a private company.<\/p>\n
A group known as the Coalition against the concession of ECG, contends that the proposed plan by government is not in the best interest of the nation and must not be allowed to go through.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”pbB9S093iDjlAAwhBoJPc2sufXlEOFJE”]Workers of ECG have been protesting\u00a0against the deal, which is under\u00a0Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Power Compact II, claiming it would lead to massive lay-offs and also not in the interest of Ghana.<\/p>\n
But the\u00a0Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) had assured that the deal will not affect jobs.<\/p>\n
Other suit involving compact<\/strong><\/p>\n A member of the opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) communications team, Saaka Salia sued<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0MiDA, arguing that it is not fit to participate as an adviser in the concession arrangement for the ECG because its conduct\u00a0breached Ghana\u2019s laws after it authored and circulated a draft tariff methodology.<\/p>\n Joined to the suit was the PURC, the Attorney General\u2019s office, and Energy Commission.\u00a0Mr. Salia argued that MiDA breached Ghana\u2019s laws after it authored and circulated a draft tariff methodology.<\/p>\n Mr. Salia\u2019s writ asserted\u00a0that, the PURC, not MiDA is the body with exclusive mandate by law to provide guidelines for determining tariffs and levels of tariffs, and in doing so in the manner prescribed by Act 538.<\/p>\n