{"id":335889,"date":"2017-07-12T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335889"},"modified":"2017-07-12T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:02:03","slug":"boakye-agyarko-slams-ecg-group-over-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/boakye-agyarko-slams-ecg-group-over-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"Boakye Agyarko slams ECG group over privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Energy Minister,\u00a0Boakye Agyarko<\/strong> <\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>has described as disingenuous threats by a group calling itself the Coalition of Stakeholders on the Concession of ECG Agreement (COSECA), to head to court over government\u2019s decision to partly\u00a0privatize<\/strong><\/a><\/span> the power company.<\/p>\n According to him, the ECG workers\u2019 approach to expressing their dissatisfaction over some clauses in the deal is inappropriate.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”tSbVu0Dj10cW7hGeFRA5qB9u70Gb90Dj”]\u201cIt beats my imagination that we sit in a meeting, come to an agreement, sign off on them and they change their minds. Why didn\u2019t they come back immediately to say no we disagree? But to have waited for 2 months for this matter to move on and come back not under the umbrella of the previous discussion to take a strident lone view that you disagree with grandfathering is disingenuous,\u201d he told Citi News<\/strong> in an interview.<\/p>\n COSECA has been reiterating the stance of the Public Utilities Workers\u2019 Union (PUWU<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) calling on the government to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact, which among other things will see the OCG being ceded to a private investor for 20 years.<\/p>\n The government has suggested it is not ready to review the deal as it believes it has addressed all the concerns of the workers.<\/p>\n Among the concerns was the probability of mass layoffs, but the government has given assurances that no worker will be laid off involuntarily.<\/p>\n