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ECG workers fight Gov’t over sale

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  • telabi 8 years ago

    Yes Gov'mnt must privatize ECG so the workers will not behave the way they are behaving. because everything is blamed on govmn't they do what they want.

  • Jake 8 years ago

    My friend don't talk nonsense. When you don't know what going on. Tell your govt to pay billshe owes and make the company more profit oriented than to sell it. Thank you

  • Josh 8 years ago

    What is going on that we dont know? Govt bills are not the only key issue ECG is facing. The main issue is the $600M expensive Supplier' credits you are servicing. Come again

  • AYEB de jiaogualan 8 years ago

    Workers of ECG are right. Government should rather give the company the necessary resource the able engineers will come out the same results as private. Given out the ECG will be a big mistake on the side of government and i ...
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  • ABLEZA RESIDENT 8 years ago

    There is a strong feeling in the nation that the government has abrogated its duty to solve national problems. This, according to a survey, is due to incompetence, lack of know-how, laziness and corruption.

    I believe there ...
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  • ABLEZA RESIDENT 8 years ago

    Must read : Our constitution must be amended to insert provisions for privatization during the tenure of a failing administration like what we are witnessing currently. Any such privatized entity must be limited to completing ...
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  • Kojo 8 years ago

    Sack the commercial manager of Dodowa. Why do you put some part of Adenta under Dodowa?

  • MR TRUTH 8 years ago

    ECG WORKERS ARE MAKING ALL THESE NOISES BUT THEY ARE THEIR OWN WORSE ENEMIES. IN DOME, WHERE I LIVE, IF YOU GO FOR THE PREPAID METERS, YOU ARE TOLD THEY DON'T HAVE THEM. SO THEY ARE FORCING PEOPLE TO GO BACK TO THE OLD POST P ...
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  • Fra 8 years ago

    Yes seems plausible . Support workers to get all sorted as they seem to know what is "wrong"
    But the mo EU from USA will cloud the whole idea so it will transfer .....unfortunately ...,

  • KWABENA ABOAGYE 8 years ago

    ALL STATE INSTITUTIONS MUST BE PRIVATISED THE ECG INCLUDED. THEY ARE FULL OF CORRUPT PRACTICES, CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, LAZINESS AND ALL THE EVIL DEED CRIPPLING THE FORWARD MATCH OF THE COMPANY. MOST OF THE HEADS HAVE BEEN APPO ...
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  • godsway 8 years ago

    I support your stand. How many countries have state institutions? Countries with state institutions do not practicw democracy so I believe that when individuals are made to manage some of these parastatals with their on capit ...
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  • Sam 8 years ago

    Just sell it to the highest bidder with a potential plan to expand and operate efficiently. As for these workers, sack most of them and employ new hands. They are just lazy and corrupt.

  • Kwaku 8 years ago

    Privatise it and you will see how it will grow

  • uncle boo 8 years ago

    Ghanaians should remember TEMA DRYDOCK and WATER COMPANY.THANK YOU.

  • ASEM WO MANO 8 years ago

    Look at those criminals. You tap electricity to your cronies pocket the money, now that your cups are full see the crocodile tears flowing. We care less. If you are so patroitic to Ghana our motherland, you could have fixed t ...
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  • godsway 8 years ago

    Where are the brains? Even (excuse may language) tomato sellers know how to trade their wares. ECG buy and sell electricity but refuse to pay the suppliers. Why? Three years ago the gov. requested ECG to install prepaid in th ...
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  • Kofi Mensa 8 years ago

    ECG ARE THIEVES !

  • ben 8 years ago

    on government of Ghana should stop sell E.C.G now

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    READ: "...Two options were presented: either concession or partial privatisation of ECG, with Government of Ghana (GoG) settling on giving out the company on concession sale in which the State would enter into a contract with ...
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  • Aunt Betty 8 years ago

    Fantastic record of service. The generator industry love them

  • Dr.William Acquah 8 years ago

    All we can do best is to pray day and night with no results.Let us use our brains like the Whites to make things work!Why do we have to sell everything we have? We have already sold a very sensitive national asset-Ghana Telec ...
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  • Pratt 8 years ago

    These incompetent and corrupt ECG Staff fighting hard to protect their jobs.
    Nobody should listen to them.

    ECG must be privatized to inject some level of professionalism into the operations of ECG.

    I reported my faulty ...
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  • RE - PRATT 8 years ago

    YES IS TRUE, EVEN YOU CAN BE IN DARKNESS FOR 20 YEARS BCOS YOU DONT KNOW WHY IS LIKE THAT, YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED TO KNOW THAT.

    IT IS NOT ECG STAFF WHO ARE HANDLING CURRENT METERING SYSTEM CALLED BXC AT YOUR PLACE.

    IT ...
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  • Ananse 8 years ago

    ECG should be privatize,there are a lot of corruptions going on there especially from the top..after a careful investigation with the workers,its been alleged that the ECG workers union(the national executives,have been comp ...
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  • obi 8 years ago

    hahaha why cant Govt.be responsible

  • Thomas 8 years ago

    It is long overdue. The government should go ahead without delay. ECG is a complete waste of government resources. Criminals all over the place and blaming it on the government. The government should act quickly without delay ...
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  • Dr 8 years ago

    Whatever you called yourself, I think the sale of Ghana Telco wasn't a bad idea. Now you see even many villages have access to network which wasn't possible when the company was in gov hands. Sell the ECG. Its a breeding grou ...
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  • a concern staff of ecg 8 years ago

    Selling ecg will not solve the power crisis that we are experincing. If not for political expediency and lack of understanding of ecg operational activities, i wonder the motive behind this decion on the part of government. H ...
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  • Joe/TX 8 years ago

    How old is ECG and how much do consumers owe ECG? You want to play the "Lase Lase" work. Go to work at 10am work lotto to 12.30 pm and leave work at 3 pm. Oburoni n'dwuma wotwe n'adze and Oburoni is coming for his job. Nkruma ...
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  • don 8 years ago

    The privatization of vital state entities has brought negative effect on the economy ie Ghana Telecom
    Govt interference is too much in the company. We should learn from past experience. The workers of ECG are right

  • Ghanaba 8 years ago

    You resisted the sale of a national asset, Ghana Telecom in NPP,s administration.
    Why are you behaving like Tom and Jerry?

  • abuah 8 years ago

    i dont support privatization,but what is the proof of competence of the management of ECG? why is the tariff rates so high in the face of constant power outgages?

  • Sarah 8 years ago

    Sell the ECG n Sack only the commercial manager of Dodowa

  • Riky 8 years ago

    This guy is a curse. He doesn't take the readings from our meters. He can just put any amount on any bill

  • smart 8 years ago

    The giver and receiver who has the power.question does ECG produce energy, is no they only distribute, how can they distribute when there is no power. If gov't has anything to privatise then is vra but not ECG.

  • YA - USA 8 years ago

    The best thing to happen to Ghana will be the privatization of ecg. Total waste.

  • Galley Dzokoto 8 years ago

    Mahama will you sell your wife too for management by other men? Iam afraid;

  • and who will pocket the money ? for w 8 years ago

    and who will pocket the money ? for which use?

  • Galley Dzokoto 8 years ago

    after you have sold all government institutions what will be there for you to govern ?

  • YAO 8 years ago

    I support the government to privatize some of the state organizations but not the utilities. The foreign investor is only interested in making profit and that will go against the ordinary Ghanaian who is already from the curr ...
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  • HAZOR 8 years ago

    The question we need to solve is that as president Mahama don't pay workers in time to pay their bills and the private company running ECG don't care how you are and don't care if Mahama has paid you or not and because they a ...
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  • Akonoba 8 years ago

    EGC staff are so corrupt that they condone illegal connections. The staff who would be assigned to identify illegal connections would become instant millionaires by taking bribes. And even the manager who is supposed to assig ...
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  • ME SIKA NA MERIWHEWHE 8 years ago

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  • Kojo @ T. 8 years ago

    Mr. Baiden is one of the corrupt ones.
    Making his own rules preventing companies from investing into the power sector of the economy. Ebenezer Baiden is a corrupt man at ECG.

  • KK 8 years ago

    Privatisation is good.Let the government go ahead, but they should remember the noise they made and the lies they told Ghanaians during the part sale of the then Ghana Telecom (now Vodafone). Social democrats indeed. I'm in f ...
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  • Yaw Opoku 8 years ago

    Ooh so you think tarrifs are high erhh when the private man who hasnt started operation is already asking for 150% tarrif increment even before he takes over...and it be 51% at e initial stage then 50% after 3months n a final ...
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  • Chinook 8 years ago

    ECG workers are fools. Since the Economic Recovery Program more than 12 billion . Dollars have been pumped into ECG and yet no change there. Electrical contracts are awarded to masons, carpenters and tailors. Where are the br ...
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  • Che Guevara 8 years ago

    i hv listened to both sides of the argument. my point is that govt shd not privatise ecg as we will surely pay 200 percent higher tariffs. but sack all corrupt ecg workers and managers. ensure authentic corporate governance a ...
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