A Western Regional Chairman Hopeful of the NPP, Mr. Frank Etti is appealing to workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to have confidence in the Nana Addo administration in the on-going deliberations regarding the ceding of a percentage of the company to a private investor.
Discussions are far advanced and the contract for the ceding was signed in 2014 by the Mahama-led NDC administration to release the power company to a private investor for over two-decades as part of the Millennium Challenge Power Compact II.
Although the disbursement of the monetary benefits to the Government of Ghana was expected in August 2016, it is yet to materialized as discussions are still ongoing particularly with the new government.
Workers of ECG last week raised further concerns about their job security and therefore called on the government to pay them their severance packages before the takeover.
But Mr. Frank Etti, also known as Chairman Frankette believes the Nana Addo administration has demonstrated more than enough to assure the workers of ECG that they are safe under the new arrangements.
“If you recall, the President on May Day assured the ECG workers that they will not lose their jobs, again, the years for the takeover have also been renegotiated from 25 to 20years” he noted.
I wish to therefore appeal to them that this NPP government came to provide jobs but not to make them redundant so the ECG should just have faith.
Source: otecfmghana.com/Kwame Boakye
