The Member of Parliament for Pru East and former Minister of Energy Dr Kwabena Donkor has mentioned the Electrical energy Firm of Ghana (ECG) needs to be partly blamed for the debt owed by establishments.

He accused the state energy distributor of beforehand succumbing to pressures from authorities establishments to not act to retrieve its debt.

Talking on the Ghana Tonight present on TV3 Tuesday, March 21, Dr Donkor mentioned relating to the reason for the debt of the ECG that “It’s an attitudinal downside. Quite a lot of authorities establishments assume there may be one central authorities and that there could be debt settlement… there was an company settlement association however that’s no extra.

“ECG is partly in charge, beforehand it has succumbed to all kinds of pressures from authorities establishments. After I was the Minister of Energy we put the Ministry of Power and the Ministry of Finance on pay as you go, as soon as you set them on pay as you go they will’t accumulate debt except there’s a fault, that’s the problem.”

The corporate mentioned that it has launched a digitalized system to make sure the sum of money acquired from the debt restoration train is monitored straight by the Managing Director of the corporate.

The duty pressure visited establishments akin to Parliament, the Ghana Arprort Firm Restricted (GACL) and the Ghana Broadcasting Company (GBC) as a part of the debt restoration.

Talking to journalists after the train on Monday, March 20, the Exterior Communications Supervisor of ECG, Laila Abubakar mentioned “The nationwide process pressure is the one that’s answerable for the state-owned enterprises, the ministries, departments and companies and so we have now been going with them, we visited Parliament Home, they have been owing a few GHS13million they’ve dedicated to paying GHS8.5million, we noticed proof of that.

“We went to the Ghana Airpot Firm, they owed arrears of GHS28million of which they made GHS10 million fee immediately simply after we obtained there so we have now given them 48 hours to make the total fee.”

She added “Now, we’re right here on the Ghana Broadcasting Company, in addition they owe in arrears of about GHS6 million however they’ve defined to us that due to the best way they run their operations they wouldn’t be capable to cough out the cash for us immediately, they’ve had some discussions with the Minister of Data and the Nationwide Media Fee along with the Ministry of Power and there was some type of settlement final years. Nevertheless, ECG’s level is that there has not been any motion on the debt that’s remaining.

“They’ve defined to us they’ve a system and they’re going to get some cash and pay as a result of they’ve to search out modern methods of arising with the cash and so we have now been giving permission to depart them for now for 48 hours.”

The  ECG has additionally been disconnecting properties and industries over money owed.

Laila Abubakar mentioned “In Tema, we have now acquired images of disconnections occurring in residences, we have now acquired images of them in a few of the industries in Tema and they’re being disconnected.

“I’m hoping that by the tip of the day, we should always be capable to see some huge cash coming in into our accounts.

“Our system has been digitized in such a means that by the tip of the day the Managing Director will be capable to see how a lot we have now recouped from this train and so we’ll report in a well timed foundation how a lot we’re making on a weekly foundation.”

By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana

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