ECG Workers To Embark On Strike Today
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) workers are set to embark on a sit-down strike today, Monday, April 26, 2021, across the country. The strike is said to begin from 8 am to 10 am is coming on as the workers are demanding the removal of the current Managing Director of the company over what they describe as “incompetence” on his part.
Princess Mumuni
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) workers are set to embark on a sit-down strike today, Monday, April 26, 2021, across the country.
The strike is said to begin from 8 am to 10 am is coming on as the workers are demanding the removal of the current Managing Director of the company over what they describe as “incompetence” on his part.
They also alleged that several petitions to Mr Agyeman-Budu to involve its rank and file in revenue mobilization since 2020 have been ignored.
The workers claimed the MD’s continuous stay at the post will collapse the electricity distribution company because to them, he is unsatisfactory when it comes to matters relating to administrative and corporate governance.
They also accuse their MD of breaching procurement processes.
A statement by the Junior and Senior staff union said “A clear example is the award of contracts of some Six (6) substations where the recommendations of the evaluation committee were sidestepped and awarded to other companies".
“The Union decries the alarming rate at which the company’s technical and commercial losses are galloping. A conservative estimate puts the current system loss figure at over 34% as of February 2021, and there are no concrete strategies in place to bring them down in the short and medium-term"
