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Privatising ECG: ‘We might as well sell Ghana’ – Lucy Anin

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE ( OFIE P33 ) 8 years ago

    AUTHOR: YAW-----When one hears the likes of Anyidoho,Kofi Adams,Asiedu Nkatiah,Ofosu Kwakye,Bokor and the rest of these NDC small minders saying Nana Addo or for that matter NPP has no message,you wonder whether they understa ...
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  • IDIOTIC GHANAIANS 8 years ago

    Where has this lady been? We are a nation with no national airlines, our physical security, energy, food and medicine is underwritten and controlled by another country, our leaders have mortgaged oil produced in the country f ...
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  • Suzzi 8 years ago

    Management contract is not the same as a sale. Kufuor leased the Ghana water company to AVRL but we now have it back. The good thing about management contract is that when we are not satisfied with performance, we take our in ...
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  • Anonymous Coward 8 years ago

    There's always an explanation of stupid ventures by these useless so-called leaders. You can even mortgage Ghana. Ghanaians are by nature very corrupt, dishonest, liars, wicked, ignorant, deceitful, lazy, thieves and hypocr ...
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  • Aj 8 years ago

    Oooh aba suzzi.plz can you redrew your comments,Dr Nkrumah can use 40% non vasity degree holders to creats more then 300 companies,manage them perfectly which Ghana became job center for must of our sub-sahara african countri ...
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  • Ada Boy 8 years ago

    This is fine Ghanaian lady who thinks only about the past. Private ownership of utilities is here to stay.You see, governments can't afford to build power plants and subsidize the running cost and power to the consumer. The r ...
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  • True Talk 8 years ago

    We owe over a hundred billion. The NDC have virtually sold us into slavery. No wonder we have to pay more for electricity, petrol and food. We will be paying whilst they enjoy the monies they have looted.

  • YawYeboah 8 years ago

    Regarding your comments regarding privatising ECG, you have made some sensible and good points. However, you have overlooked the fact that
    consumers will be footing the bill for the costs of any privatisation of ECG, with i ...
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  • Ada Boy 8 years ago

    You have not answered the critical question of investing into energy generation.How do we expect government to raise the funds necessary for such investments when we are not paying for the cost of producing it? Somebody has g ...
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  • jean 8 years ago

    Well said Madam. Our leaders are too corrupt.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    You are a fool to praise her. She is only protecting her grandchildren in that business for sure. All across Europe and America, privatisation of electricity is paramount due to the competition involved, which in-turn drove d ...
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  • bombay 8 years ago

    You are a fool to not reason well. She knows ecg will not be sold to an indigene. USA will privatise but not to sell its power to china to manage. They twisted us with money to hand ecg over. Know the facts. They external han ...
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  • Me 8 years ago

    You can't compare Ghana to the US. Their economy is so different from ours. Even our attitude is never the same

  • Samson 8 years ago

    Can Lucy Anin tell me which state owned enterprise is doing well today? Can she name any? Is there one state owned company that operates as well as Accra Brewery, or Guiness Ghana Ltd? May be 2 or 3 from the over hundred that ...
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  • Aj 8 years ago

    Look at yourself samson,you make me sick in my balls.why coming out with such rubbish if i may ask.go to germany and see for your self what's is call state own management.all ghanaians know is ohh he/she schooled in oxford un ...
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  • Obra 8 years ago

    Samson, by your arguments we should sell the parliament, the police service, bank of ghana among others. What we need is to hold management accountable. Sack them for non performance. Hire the right people to deliver. Loo ...
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  • Me 8 years ago

    It's because of corruption and other factors that state owned companies are not run well and I think she's saying those negatives should stop so that government can be effective. And you know by privatising it, the aim would ...
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  • Atoapoma Abransamadu 8 years ago

    Nana Thank You! You have said it all!

  • Kontonkyi 8 years ago

    We might as well privatise our government, if we are talking about mismanagement.

  • Constable Joy 8 years ago

    TRUE,PRIVATISE OR SELL JUST WAITING FOR MY SHARE.REMEMBER TO CREDIT MY GRAND MUM'S PANAMAN A/C, IN THE CEMENTARY AT ELMINA

  • Obra 8 years ago

    Nana, mete wo so aa na m'asore. You've said it all. What is going on is due to the fact that current leaders did not live through colonial days and are unaware of the drawbacks that it presented.

  • Josh 8 years ago

    Somehow some of the most uninformed comments make the news. Who said ECG is being sold?
    One needs to check what is going on in ECG with apolitical lenses and see whether there is an alternative to the Concession option.

  • Hassan Tayas 8 years ago

    What a selfish government. Hmm, that is the socialist government in place, fire burn them
    lack of vision

  • Hassan Tayas 8 years ago

    God intervene to serve us from this so-called government. Hmm! that is socialist government in place

  • sam 8 years ago

    I bet u see yourself as a big minded person then?

  • Kimi 8 years ago

    Fully agree!

  • kofi Asante 8 years ago

    If AVRL was a mistake why try ECG, loose millions and retake it again. Am overwhelmed by the logic here. If private investment is good let them build theirs and no one should block dem, to sell what u can't create on a cheap ...
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  • kwabena Asante 8 years ago

    this forth republic is a shame.
    they never build, just sell.
    sadly ignorant youth follow them, how do u get jobs?

  • Nii Armah Akomfrah 8 years ago

    Lucy Anin is absolutely right
    We have had clueless govt whose only solution is to sell assets .

  • Godsway 8 years ago

    Nii, that is not the case. All the citizens are not doing things right.

  • Boat 8 years ago

    She also asked if we need 275 MPs. Isn't it mind boggling that a small country like Gh has that number of non performers being paid for nothing? We really need to challenge ourselves in making our dear country great. If our l ...
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  • DAVID JAISEY 8 years ago

    We as Ghanaian's have what it take to be good managers but for greed and disrespect for state property

  • Ishaku adams 8 years ago

    As for president mahama the least said about him the better.I don,t know those who serves as his advisors.He has shown clearly that northern are incapable which some of us from that place feels so bad.When can northern be abl ...
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  • kwesi 8 years ago

    please don't be tribalistic. an Akan, Eve, Nzema or any tribe can equally corrupt.

  • inercycl 8 years ago

    If we sell the entire nation to the highest bidder, perhaps a lot of things might go well.For now, I don't clearly see what is going well.Looting of state funds perhaps!

  • kwesi 8 years ago

    the whole thing started after the 1966 coup. they stole moneys and bought articulator trucks and killed the railways. any honest politician will as early as possible revamp the railways for this can seriously revamp the econo ...
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  • Okano 8 years ago

    I think privatising ECG is in the right direction because it will stop the stealing of our credit at the ECG.

  • Bob 8 years ago

    Listen to the educated illiterate. Dont allow politics to take away your reasoning.

  • obi 8 years ago

    we shouldn't allow that

  • ASH 8 years ago

    Ghana cannot be left behind by constantly distributing its wealth to the people. Government can only supplement to peoples positive efforts.

  • Divine Ninja 8 years ago

    Acheampong made a great recommendation to get rid of politics to have the nation ruled by associations where everyone's interest surely count. I believe it was a great idea because it would solve numerous problems. I am prayi ...
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  • KO 8 years ago

    Do we really need 275 MPs. The quality is poor. Most of them are being paid for doing nothing. I agree with Ms Anin. We are wasting money whiles we go cup in hand for loans

  • Jack 8 years ago

    ECG is currently the most in-efficient public utility and must be privatized to make it efficient.
    Look at the way they have managed meters and customer billing.
    The Company will never sit up if not privatised

  • JM 8 years ago

    GOD BLESSED YOU GRAND MUM.

  • Mabel 8 years ago

    Privitaliazation brings competition and good services among business.it also gives the consumer choices and it open doors for research which ghanaians hate .so open doors for franchise of ecg so that we can hv variaties.

  • YawYeboah 8 years ago

    Mabel, in theory you are correct about the benefits of privatisation. However, in practice these benefits rarely occur. Whichever private contractor takes over the management of ECG, will look to recoup their investment costs ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 8 years ago

    Yaw remember that Ghana is not a socialist country by all accounts because nothing is free in our present dear country. We might have enjoy freebees some years past but that cannot go on forever and ever. Those who want the c ...
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  • Anas 8 years ago

    There is a peculiar insanity in the minds of most Ghanaians. They are corrupt inside and outside, blood and bones. Rome was never built in a day. Ghana need a benevolent leadership to put things perfectly. How can u mortgage ...
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  • Nana Osei 8 years ago

    Our people are lazy at work. They steal govt money all the time..let's follow the example of Margaret Thatcher in the UK. Privatise Ghana Railways and Water company as well.

  • Say Alla Dey 8 years ago

    Ain`t they selling it to themselve?