[ 2017-05-16 ]

Robert Porter Jackson, US Ambassador to Ghana

US Embassy does not owe ECG
The United States Embassy does not owe the
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

This is according to Michael Adumatta Nyantakyi,
the General Secretary of the Public Utilities
Workers Union of TUC (PUWU) has revealed that the
US Embassy has no outstanding bills to pay.

He revealed that the US Embassy has no outstanding
bills to pay ECG contrary to what is being
alleged.

His comment comes after Minister of Energy, Mr
Boakye Agyarko, in a stunning revelation,
disclosed that the US Embassy in Ghana and telecom
giant MTN Ghana, owe the ECG several million Cedis
of power supplied.

While the exact outstanding amount owed ECG by the
American Embassy with over 160 facilities across
the country was not readily available, MTN on its
part says it has an outstanding GHC35million debt
to pay the state power distributor.

This development, Mr. Boakye Agyarko maintained
may lead to its collapse if they are not remedied
urgently.

But Mr. Nyantakyi on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen
programme Tuesday said the information put out by
the Sector Minister is inaccurate.

“From the information I have, the US does not
owe ECG. They have paid all their bills” he
stressed.

However, he indicated that, the US Embassy
requested for prepaid metres for their staff and
other facilities but when they were asked to pay
for that service, they did not get back to ECG
again.

Mr. Nyantakyi could not fathom why the power
distributor which is cash trapped will sit aloof
and allow the US Embassy sit on such colossal
amount of money.

“We need money as ECG so why will we decide not
to collect money from the US Embassy when they are
ready to pay” he quizzed.

The PUWU General Secretary said such wild
allegation can only be borne out of the government
decision to sell ECG.

Reacting to the MTN issue, Mr. Nyantakyi conceded
that the telecom giant owed ECG but some
reconciliations are being done to address the
issue.

He, however, noted that, the government is to
blame for the seeming collapse of ECG because
MMDAs owe them.

Mr. Nyantakyi said there are bigger issue to make
ECG operate efficiently, “and we thought that
these are the issues which should occupy the mind
and attention of the Minister”.

Source - adomonline.com

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