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“ECG on the brink of collapse” – Power Minister

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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:-Kofi Wayo...

    Investigate the death of Atta Mills. Take care of more important stuff.Investigate corruption in government.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 10 years ago

    AUTHOR: KOFI-----
    THIS WICKED AND THIEVING NDC GOVT EVEN BUDGETED FOR JUDGEMENT DEBTS PAYMENTS WHEN THEY CAME TO POWER...GHANAIANS SAW THIER THIEVERY AND BAD IDEAS ABOUT GHANA SO THEY QUICKLY REMOVED IT FROM SUBSEQUENT BUDGE ...
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  • Kerensky 10 years ago

    Nothing works in this hopeless country called Ghana. It's a lost cause. Mahama must be removed now before it's too late!

  • K. A. 10 years ago

    Tell us something new. We cannot expect any credible good news from NDC.

  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:-ELINAM...
    These big and useless men increased fuel price to fatten their take-home salary that nobody knows about and reducing fuel price to reflect the current crude oil price means to reduce their salary in order t ...
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  • jimmy 10 years ago

    True

  • kwasi 10 years ago

    PLEASE STEP DOWN ME MAHAMA YOU ARE DESTROYING GHANA O

  • Gye Nyame 10 years ago

    Throw more good money after bad, that is the mantra of state institutions. Have you heard of the telecom companies weeping like ECG? You buy minutes etc., to talk, no one uses their the telecom services for free.

    What pri ...
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  • concern citizen 10 years ago

    Shameless npp will play politics with this when citizens are not being responsible by paying their bill. What you hope for friend will sit on yr door for many years. God will give ghana a leader we need but not someone we wan ...
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  • Amadu Siedu 10 years ago

    Citizens are in actual fact paying their bills. Those refusing to pay their bills are government departments, government ministries and the office of the president. The chief directors always budget for it but refuse to pay ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Who gives a hoot about what the bunch of desperate and Kalabule souls thinks! Come what may, your Kukurudu party is not coming anywhere near our presidency for a long, long, long, long and yet long time in our political histo ...
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  • Auntie Maggie 10 years ago

    Sacked all the directors of ECG their problem will be solve, Not that they are not collecting the money but they are misusing the money, The minister should also investigate the external contractors who works for ECG, the min ...
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  • DAVID AMOAH 10 years ago

    Dr. Donkor, the minister for power, the talking is becoming too much.
    You should by now know what to do:
    1. Send letters to the debtors asking them to pay up all bills with a deadline date and let the ECG lawyers write tho ...
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  • yaw apau 10 years ago

    Why should we get to this place in the first place, What was the previous chief executives doing, what prevents us from privatising ECG as a country or turning it into a national grid and then they can sell this power to priv ...
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  • Kojo Ababio 10 years ago

    David Amoah,you are right in your suggestions as to how to collect the debt owed to the ECG.However,you surely don't think it is the responsibility of the Minister to collect the debt?It is up to the ECG to take the appropria ...
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  • KOFI GOO 10 years ago

    HOW DO YOU GO BROKE? PEOPLE BUYS THEIR OWN WIRES & METER, SO HALF IS PAYED BY
    THE COSTUMER THEN. HOW DO YOU GO BROKE?

  • kofi 10 years ago

    Collect the state debt first. If you put a person of the calibre of Allotey Jacobs on the board of a major state company as ECG, don't you know the company is headed for collapse along the way?

  • Kwame Dokyi 10 years ago

    Ghana is like a premature born struggling for survival on multiple drips.God will punish the leaders and heads of institutions for not effecting the practical exploitation of the rich potentials for the benefit of all,but loo ...
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  • KWAME BARFI AGYEMANG 10 years ago

    why ndc govt pays huge amount of money in judgement debt as result of create loot and share syndrome ,instead given to ECG TO SOLVE THIS MESS

  • Yaw Adu-Asare 10 years ago

    ECG needs serious health treatment to wake up.

  • ADAMA 10 years ago

    That is what management is all about. Finding creative ways to collect money owed and sustaining the company as well as making profits, separates ordinary managers from skilled ones. Get to work and stop complaining. Managing ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Excellent ADAMA. Too much talking. If these are bad debts define them. Stop complaining and tell us something new.

  • Osofo 10 years ago

    If I don't pay my electric bill my power will be cut off. Why the hell do you guys wait until you are broke before crying? Foolish people in charge.

  • sam 10 years ago

    As a nation, we have inflicted all these troubles by our own making. ECG by all estimation can not survive . PERIOD.
    We need to take a clue from the telecom industry. How is TICO, Vodafone able to survive. Have we thought a ...
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  • Douglas. Bristol-UK 10 years ago

    Akufo addo and the Npp is a big disgrace to Ghana and Africa.

  • ASAAWAH-ASD HOLLAND 10 years ago

    KWASEA YOUR MOTHER'S BIG STINKING PUSSY.WHY AKUFO ADDO AND NPP ARE BIG DISGRACE TO GHANA AND AFRICA?.IF YOU HAVE NOTHING SENSIBLE TO SAY DON'T COME HERE AND SHOW YOUR STUPIDITY.IS AKUFO ADDO THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA?.EVEN YOUR ...
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  • Nii Joromi 10 years ago

    This looks like a post by an illiterate from a rural slum somewhere in the jungle. You wasted your mother's womb and pussy for 9 months. Motherfucker following this useless NDC blindly.

  • abodam!!! 10 years ago

    @Douglas, I know u you are our toilet cleaner at Tesco shop, idiot go and find a better job, you don't even have papers to stay here.

  • WAIITING TO VOTE NDC OUT 10 years ago

    E de bee k3k3 innit? John Mahama's NDC gov't is the biggest debtor to the ECG, and instead of paying up the debt owed ECG, so the ECG can function, and invest in the kind of technology and capacity to meet and address the ele ...
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  • NOBODY 10 years ago

    at least you know the major problem, that is, you're owed hundreds of millions of cedis. Why not start immediately on a collection program to recoup the monies owed to the agency? Why should the government pump money into the ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    Hahaha..State institution like the Power Ministry and Energy Ministry owes ECG I will bet...the horse bailed out of the stables a long tie ago..sorry

  • VOICE OF REASON 10 years ago

    Useless projects like circle interchange and whatever interchange......the dumb guy does not seem to appreciate the importance of power to the economic health of the country

  • Fiction 10 years ago

    wat is dis useless min talking abt u were brought on board to solve prblms n u are rather compounding issues it is apployed by dis stupid min just to increasr electricity tariffs if u can nt solve de power prblms u wer ...
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  • VOICE OF REASON 10 years ago

    Because under normal circumstance this dumb guy will not go beyond being MP.....but illiteracy,poverty,tribalism and blinkered voting,not to mention election rigging have lumbered us with this dumb,pea-brain president

  • yahuza 10 years ago

    ndc is not a serious government.want to collapse ghana before 2016

  • dr bullet 10 years ago

    Iooiojoouooouokooouikkjkkiiinmnnoouii

  • Fred 10 years ago

    What was the importance in creating that power ministry?
    Formerly we used to enjoy 24hrs light and go off for 12 hrs, now we enjoy light for 6 hours and go off for 18 hrs
    Ghana is now hell. We cant even work .

  • mr amin 10 years ago

    Vote ndc out they lack the brains to govern.

  • Lord Tennison 10 years ago

    Privatization is the answer.

  • United Ghana 10 years ago

    Yeah? And what control will we have over electricity charges. People in senior positions just have to do the job for which they are handsomely rewarded

  • KT 10 years ago

    The $4m that was shipped to Brazil for the Black Stars was from ECG coffers. I know this for a fact

  • The Truth 10 years ago

    Hypocrites Member of Corrupt NDC Mahama govt.

  • senior 10 years ago

    Drop that yam, Mahama is incompetent so is his subordinates. Ghana drop that yam from bole bamboi

  • Kwesi Nfum 10 years ago

    When u appoint a useless Board, a useless Hutton- Mensah as an MD and useless Directors except one, what do you expect? Hutton-Mensah the incompetent and THIRD CLASS degree holder speeded the collapse of E.C.G. period.

  • Nii Joromi 10 years ago

    Useless bunch of educated misfits, rogues and clowns running African countries. What do you expect? People like Fiifi, Jacobs, Asiedu, Ablakwa, Mahama and the list goes on.

  • azumah 10 years ago

    Mr minister why are u telling us this. Blame mahama. If he can pay at least half of what his government is owing ECG, the company will not collapse. Its a shame that under mahama everything is collapsing. If the kitchen is t ...
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  • tinkletua south Africa 10 years ago

    what are de leaders doing for mother Ghana than always talking with no solution , ! fire born Them!

  • Kwame Birmingham 10 years ago

    You guys don't pay electric bills, illegal connections everywhere and you come here and complain, stupid people

  • fire man songo 10 years ago

    sell it of quick before it collapse

  • Frank 10 years ago

    Start with the ministries

  • bosoku 10 years ago

    name should be changed to DUMSO company of Ghana!

  • SIMON 10 years ago

    JUST A MATTER OF TIME AND STEALING, LOOTING, AND IGNORACE MASTER SLAVE MENTALITY GO HAND IN HAND. SHOW ME DEVELOPED BLACK NATION NON SOUTH AFRICA WAS DEVELOPED WITH 10% WHITES AT THE CHEAP LABOUR OF POOR BLACK POPULATION WHO ...
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  • Francis 10 years ago

    Break the monopoly and allow others competite with them this will bring seriouly into ECG. Ghana as a whole cannot have just one company monoploling everything

  • Pround pepeni. 10 years ago

    MR MJNISTER SEND SOME SECRET CUSTOMERS TO ANY ECG OFFICE AND LET THEM LOOK FOR ILLEGAL CONNECTION AND SEE HOW EASY IT IS. THESE PEOPLE AT ECG ARE NOT INTERESTED IN RUNNING AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM BECAUSE IT IS NOT IN THEIR INTER ...
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  • Emmanuel ofori - kumi 10 years ago

    It should collapse.ECG boss was fired bcos he disconnected power supply to parliament which owe the company billions of cedis n created power ministry.How can such company survive.God save Ghana.

  • Okess 10 years ago

    AND SELL IT TO A FOREIGN PRIVATE COMPANY

  • if the lone crusader 10 years ago

    If you put the responsibility in the hands of a grade d post office boy an instituition of this sensibility and delicatess what do you expect?

  • Awaaba 10 years ago

    This is one of Ghana's corrupt, inefficient, wasteful, incompetent and inept agencies of government... Declare it bankrupt and restructure it's debts with downsizing, technological automation and business orientation!!!!!

  • Awaaba 10 years ago

    ECG owns "Dumsor" and will forever be linked to it. How incompetence can be out-of-control and be manifest in a major/national way I cannot understand...Where are the so-called leaders that allowed this to get out of hand...I ...
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  • DENTERN 10 years ago

    CORRUPTION AT PLAY

  • abba 10 years ago

    THE SPIRIT OF JUNE 4TH 1979 REVOLUTION IS TOTALLY DEAD BECAUSE MAHAMA LED NDC HAS LOOTED THE COFFERS OF THE NATION. NOW IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE BLOOD OF GEN.I.K.ACHAMPONG AND THE OTHERS WHO WERE EXECUTED ARE INNOCENT.

  • abba 10 years ago

    THE OIL DESCOVERY HAS BEEN THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OF NDC CRIMINALS. EVEN GOING TO 'IMF' TESTIFIES.

  • ORIGINAL OBTT 10 years ago

    IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR INCOMPETENTS SO, GET OFF

  • Queen 10 years ago

    NONSENSE IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE.CRY BABY.GHANA NEEDS TO REPLACE YOU ALL INCOMPETENT MAHAMA FOLKS WITH OUR WISE MAKOLA WOMEN

  • sowah Michael 10 years ago

    Is this how bad our beloved country has transformed .....God help us

  • Gyatabi nuu 10 years ago

    Oh Asiedu Nketia, wu ye kwasia ba paa. You and your band of NDC thieves asked and begged us Ghanaians to vote you into power to help us better our lives. But you have proved to be the most stupid educated person in Ghana. Wha ...
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  • agyeman 10 years ago

    Is Mahama sure about the credentials of this man he has appointed? I think he talks too much and just does know where to start from. If ECG is broke and they have 500m out there, then they are not broke. Just shut off light t ...
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  • We wont sell ECG 10 years ago

    So who is causing this? You are elected to solve our problems. Why do we pay you?/$%£?
    We will NOT allow whoever to sell ECG. We will FIGHT you all the way!!!
    Start doing your job to restore order and stop complaining abou ...
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  • Nana Kwame Sikahene 10 years ago

    It is very pathetic to listen to such voice from the minister, not withholding how can patriotic citizens of Ghana continue to face dum so dum so whiles people put into positions to manage the affairs of our beloved country e ...
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