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ECG staff demonstrate

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  • Che Andrew 9 years ago

    Instead of working hard and supporting the new MD you are wasting working hours licking the boots of an incompetent former MD. Is the only person with the brains to solve the problems of ECG? Think,and think, and not let your ...
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  • deco 9 years ago

    OPEN YOUR EYES AND READ WELL.A NEW MD HAS BEEN APPOINTED. ALL OF A SUDDEN YOUR STUPID GOVT WANTS TO REASSIGN HIM AT THE POSITION, THUS WHY THEY ARE DEMONSTRATION

  • chief 9 years ago

    You are not normal. Are you saying because of reassignment that is why they are demonstrating or being fired. Your brain is too far from normality.

  • Stygian 9 years ago

    While you are busy demonstrating I have no light.

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK...

    Chief, I agree with you that a new ministry is not required to deal with the energy crisis. Instead, the President should have sacked the minister for Energy who has failed and is incomp ...
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  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    Mr. Kwesi Pratt, could you remember that Nkrumah used to incite workers to strike against the Whiteman, but outlawed strikes in his regime when living conditions were genuinely difficult for workers, and said that strikes wer ...
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  • Another Thief of Bagdad 9 years ago

    But power to my community has stabilized after the SACK so why are these people demonstrating? Its strange.

  • Kanawu!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Stupid fool cocaine president mahama

  • Adjei 9 years ago

    This is the former Boss who could not produce load shedding time table.
    His former Boss resigned because of ill health and he was happy.
    He twisted the arm of government to get huge salary increases for the staff. Why would ...
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  • Pround pepeni. 9 years ago

    ECG REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT ORGANISATION. INSTEAD OF MAKING SURE OUR LIGHTS ARE ON THEY ARE ON DEMOS. WHAT A SORRY BUNCH. THEIR JOBS ARE NOT OPENLY ADVERTISED SO WE HAVE INCOMPETENT PEOPLE RUNNING THE ORGANISATION.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Because they pay them when they engage on that foolishness.
    Government appointed the man and decided to terminate the appointment,it is not the work of workers to tell employer who heads the company.
    Just fire them if they ...
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  • Nana ama 9 years ago

    fools who doesn't know what they want.

  • ANDROPOV 9 years ago

    THESE WORKERS ARE NOT SERIOUS. GOVERNMENT HAS THE RIGHT TO HIRE AND FIRE. THE FORMER MD IS EVEN LUCKY BEING ASKED TO REPORT AT THE MINISTRY. IN TIMES PAST HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED TO PROCEED ON LEAVE

  • sumptuous wadaada 9 years ago

    typical ghanaian worker attitude. they lay down their tools and still expect to be paid for no work done during the demo and sadly enough they will be paid too. do u think america and uk and the west developed by strikes and ...
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  • Brains 9 years ago

    ....... because the people in UK and America are right thinking and sensible human beings! They're not fools like Ghanaians. And for your information, neither your NDC nor NPP would even qualify as a political party, let alon ...
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  • BOY KOFI 9 years ago

    When an Administrator fails to perform satisfactory he needs to go.Our Technocrats have taken us for granted,how can a whole electricity boss sit down unconcerned whilst he is an engineer?Even myself who has never studied eng ...
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  • KKO 9 years ago

    Because you do not understand what is at stake.

    ECG does not generate electricity, it only distributes what others generate. The best it can do is to move power away from villages so the unproductive thieving rogues in th ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    Mahama consider UMaT Engineers they are capable of solving power problems.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    He should not have been appointed as Managing Director in the first place,if he is really engineer he should be on the field not sitting under air condition enjoying 24/7 electricity while Ghanaians are in the darkness.
    How ...
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  • KKO 9 years ago

    What is wrong with an engineer being an evangelist and then pastor and still holding an engineering job? How does our president combine being president of ECOWAS(?) and President of Republic of Ghana?

    This gentleman is ob ...
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  • Emma Boakye 9 years ago

    Majority of the so-called demonstrators are the THIEVES in ECG.
    The fact is that the SACKED HUTTON-MENSAH has over the years endorsed stealing in the company because he himself is a thief. He has promoted all the thieves in ...
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  • SAM 9 years ago

    THE WORKERS ARE ALL CRIMINALS THEY CONSPIRE WITH THE SO CALLED MD TO DUPE YHE POOR CITIZENS

  • owoahene 9 years ago

    The president has the right to hired and fired. what he think is right for him is what he has done. if anyone disagreed, then go to court or wait till 2016.

    Why don't we give room for the president to operate. too much noi ...
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  • cee 9 years ago

    THEY INTENTIONALLY MADE VRA TO HOLD ON SUPPLY FOR THE POOR GHANIAN TO SUFFER IN OTHER TO SACK A WELL DEDICATED MAN

  • TP. 9 years ago

    BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID THAT YOUR DEALINGS WITH YOUR BOSS HAS COME TO AN END,YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING.

  • cee 9 years ago

    ARE YOU CORRECT

  • chief 9 years ago

    What is the president waiting for? He must sack these idiots demonstrating too and bring new staff to occupy their posts. There are so many unemployed people who can immediately fill their positions. How can you people become ...
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  • cee 9 years ago

    YOU ARE MAID, I WISH YOU SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION, WHAT IDEAL IDEA CAN YOU BRING UP, YOU AIMLESS

  • Ezonor 9 years ago

    Right on point. There are a lot of qualified engineers around unemployed. Sack the corrupt and disloyal employees and appoint new ones. Is it the duty of employees to determine who so be their MD?

  • Emma 9 years ago

    I agree with you Chief, I think the Prez should fire all these useless idiots and hire committed and dedicated staff. Better still he should privatize ECG.

  • TORTO 9 years ago

    ARE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY WITH THE KIND OF SERVICE YOU AND YOUR BOSS ARE PROVIDING?

  • cee 9 years ago

    TORTO YOU ARE A DISGRACE, I HOPE YOU BRING OUT IDEAL IDEA TO CURB THE SITUATION, IS ECG A MANUFACTURING COMPANY OR A DISTRIBUTION COMPANY

  • CHA 9 years ago

    Just recently ECG boss embark on disconnecting state instiutions like parliament, staduims that owes huge bills. Immediately ECG started going after the big ppl in the country the MD has been sacked. And why wasnt VRA and GRI ...
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  • cee 9 years ago

    this is not a problem with ECG BOSS BUT inefficient supply which can not meet the demand of the clients, people should note that, all ECG staff are also internal customers and also faced the same challenges, we should deem it ...
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  • YIAAA MBRA 9 years ago

    its not in the interest of the MD. The president wants to sell the company to his brother. open your eyes. Because he is opposing the government from selling Ecg.NDC GOVERNMENT THE WORSE EVA.

    i wish u all have de yes to c ...
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  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Mahama too must sack himself because of the incompetent in the system. Why blame ECG director. If you are not careful the whole system will grind to a halt.

  • HAMAMA 9 years ago

    The people on the street have balls.
    The President is becoming too big. Mahama must know that he cannot be bigger than the people who put him there.
    Democracy 101 is a government by the people for the people.
    At the moment ...
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  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    NPP IS OVERDOING IT. THE ACCRA WORKERS WERE NOT EMPLOYED BECAUSE OF A PARTICULAR MD. IN FACT, AN MD WHO IS POPULAR WITH THE WORKERS IN BAD FOR BUSINESS. ECG IS IN BAD SHAPE BECAUSE OF AN MD WHO SEEKS POPULARITY WITH WORKES IN ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    some customers with MAHAMA are fooooools

  • Bashiru manhyia Sauth Nasara codinato 9 years ago

    The president himself should be sacked he has no moral right to be in office he has fail Ghanaians reject him now

  • sule 9 years ago

    why are all those ugly faced baboons receiving pay when ECG can deliver??

    all they know is to demonstrate like baboons.

  • HARD LISTENERS 9 years ago

    Highly incompetent and kakistocratic govt we have, apologies dr. josiah aryeh of ndp.

  • Kwesi Yeboah 9 years ago

    Such pee brain comment. We need constructive ideas and comments NOT speculations. I wish the problem is not seen as a political tool, all parties are suffering the same fate.

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    Shame on u

  • ATOOOO 9 years ago

    Is this what this country is becoming? What sort of nonsense is this? Who appointed him? So now the President cannot freely act on his mandate? Do the workers know why he was removed? Has the President told them it is because ...
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  • Tony, Eritrea 9 years ago

    Why has he been sacked. If Gridco and VRA are not supplying the needed megawatts, what will the MD do, Mr President it seems your are losing focus. If he had been sacked for other reasons fine but if dumsor-dumsor then Mr Pre ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    The president seems not to understand the cause of the electricity problem in the country. If you make a wrong diagnosis and treat that, the real problem will persist and kill your patient.

  • Ezek 9 years ago

    Mr mahama why. common changes u cannot make to help our energy crises.

  • Nana 9 years ago

    Why won't you demonstrate, he has let you loose to defraud the customers and you are now scared your tunnels will be sealed

  • Nana Ponko II 9 years ago

    Nonsense wat are they demonstrating dese guys need to be sack wit their boss. kwasiasem akwakwa de ECG boss is not enough de district bosses have to go too dey don't do anytin in their respective offices. the corruption in EC ...
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  • Yankee 9 years ago

    Sack all the top management of ECG. What authority have they got to challenge the decidion OF the president?

  • KWAKU KYERETWIE 9 years ago

    GHANAIANS DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MECHANICS OF POLITICS IN GHANA. NDC DOESN'T KNOW HOW GHANA OPERATES AND THERE ARE MANY ILLETERATES IN THE NDC GOVERNMENT RUNNING THE SHOW, AS WAS DONE IN THE CPP, PNP PNDC AND ALL THE MILITARY G ...
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  • Solster 9 years ago

    Ooh Ghanaians why do we want to dictate to the president ?is that man the onlyone who can do the job well?Any illegal strike will not solve the problem,it can rather lead to dismissals,mark my words and wiseup

  • Ezonor 9 years ago

    Only in GH. There are a lot of qualified engineers around unemployed. Sack the corrupt and disloyal employees and appoint new ones. Is it the duty of employees to determine who so be their MD?

  • Solster 9 years ago

    They want him back because he has been increasing their salaries to the deteriment of Ghanaians and customers.Thieves

  • MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 9 years ago

    JUJU,CRIMINAL,PROPAGANDA,ATOPAHENE,AKONFEMHENE MAHAMA IS JUST A BIG FOOOOOOOOL PERIOD,THAT IS IT,KWAAASEA

  • D.K 9 years ago

    why r we so low in thinking, apart from the prefer MD by this workers, do they think there is no one competent to manage ECG, let assume he retires then on one can occupy his position, this clearly manifest the wrong doing th ...
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  • Hamza, Tamale 9 years ago

    What are they doing in the light of so much incompetence? Retire all of them! USELESS workers!!!

  • Asembebadabi 9 years ago

    Go back to work please. Every employee job status is at will because you can be relieved of duties at any time.
    Do ECG workers think they are doing a great service to Ghana as far as the supply of energy is concerned?

    If ...
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  • Abdul Razak 9 years ago

    This is outrageous and I would support the government if he goes ahead and fires all the ungrateful and corrupt workers of ECG especially the demonstrators. azo yi nye bua abilahi bagri vari.

  • Kanewu 9 years ago

    Look at this foolish people who are punishing the whole country with dumsor saying is not their problem.These are the people sabotaging the government with dumsor.

  • Abdul Razak 9 years ago

    This is outrageous and I would support the president if he goes ahead and fires all those ungrateful and corrupt ECG staff involved in the demonstration. There are more competent and qualified persons who will embrace and app ...
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  • Francis 9 years ago

    Why everybody is saying MD is sacked?What did he do wrong? If it is reassignment. Then to what duty? Did the government know she is having issues with very ministry, agencies and department?. 2016 will soon come.

  • KOFI ADUOMIRE 9 years ago

    JOHN MAHAMA IS BECOMING TOO AUTHORITARIAN. HOW CAN YOU BLAME THE CURRENT POWER CRISIS ON THE MD OF ECG. HUTTON MENSAH IS A TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER. HE HAS BROUGHT REAL CHANGE TO THE COMPANY WITHOUT MAKING NOISE ABOUT. HE TOOK ...
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  • KODZO KPETSIGO 9 years ago

    FIRE ALL OF THEM