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Former Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, has pointed fingers at President Nana Akufo-Addo’s first term for starving the company of investment, blaming the administration’s failed push for privatisation.
Speaking at the JoyNews National Dialogue on April 10, Mahama said, “During the President’s first tenure, all efforts were geared towards sending ECG into privatisation. So, there was zero investment in the company.”
He cited the botched Power Distribution Services (PDS) deal—where ECG’s management was handed to PDS for eight months—as a major disruption that stalled growth and reforms. Following the collapse of that deal, ECG was returned to state control just before the 2020 elections.
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“When I took office in 2022, I ordered a full health check on ECG. What I found was worrying,” Mahama added. “The customer base had grown massively, but the data systems were outdated and failing.”
He explained that ECG’s Commercial Management System (CMS), introduced through a World Bank initiative, couldn’t handle more than 4.5 million customers. “New users weren’t even entering the billing system. They were just hanging,” he revealed.
His comments come as ECG grapples with massive losses and public outrage over missing containers of equipment, poor service, and deep operational inefficiencies.
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