Workers within Ghana’s Power Sector have expressed worry over what they described as huge indebtedness in the sector, which they claimed is stifling operations.
The workers communicated their grievances on placards they displayed at this year’s May Day celebration, which took place in all the regional capitals, with the national one held at the Black Star Square in Accra.
At the Black Star Square, some staff of the power company waved placards with inscriptions to drum home their SOS call to the President to save the power sector agencies from collapse.
Some of the placards read: ‘GRIDCo is bleeding’, ‘ECG/VALCO debt killing GRIDCo’, ‘No GRIDCo, no 1District, 1Factory’, ‘Energy sector without GRIDCo is useless’, ‘GRIDCo is viable; government pay us our ESLA debt’, ‘No ESLA money = dum dum’, ‘Government, don’t throw away GRIDCo like ECG’, ‘Current tariff killing GRIDCo’, ‘ESLA – GRIDCo = Dumsor’, ‘Mr President, aagbe GRIDCo’ and ‘Lack of maintenance = More dumsor’.
The country’s energy sector is saddled with debts running into billions of cedis.In August last year when GRIDCo celebrated its 10th anniversary CEO of the company, Mr Jonathan Amoako Baah revealed that Electricity Company of Ghana for instance owe GRIDCo about GHS900million.
Again early this year, CEO of Ghana Gas Dr Benjamin K. D Asante also revealed that Volta River Authority(VRA) is also owing them to the tune of about $750million for gas supplies.
Below are some of the messages on the placards the energy sector workers displayed at the May Day.
