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Privatise State-Owned Power Companies Now

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  • kay 10 years ago

    Today is red letter day. How come we never learn how come we always want to destroy before we do the right thing. MANAGEMENT contract indeed. I agree with you in toto. Privatise.

  • GHANA 10 years ago

    WHY CAN;T WE ALSO COPY THE WEST OUR MASTER IN SUCH THINGS? COME TO USA AND SEE ALL BIG COMPANIES PRIVITARISE

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Why can we not manage our affairs. It is a shame . What is the difference between the State company and the private? Are the new workers coming from mars

  • sam 10 years ago

    I guess we remember P and T company and how this very company retarded the growth and development of telecom in this country and how by privatizing the industry Ghana had seen tremendous development in our telecom sector now ...
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  • ACE/OUTSTANDING PREACHER OF 2000 10 years ago

    Not so fast. I agree with your modern view of capitalism, however somethings should be looked into before that decisions on electricity of public energy, unlike telecom, banks and water that uses electricity.Privatization tha ...
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  • Nationalist 10 years ago

    THIS IS THE MOST NON-SENSICAL SUGGESTION. ITS ABOUT TIME THE FOOLISHNESS OF SELLING OFF STATE ASSETS CEASES COMPLETELY. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO ENCOURAGE PRIVATE CAPITAL TO SET UP PLANTS TO COMPETE WITH THE STATE-RUN I ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    If the top management need the necessary skills they should be trained. Then make their employment a contract. Then employ some other Ghanaians if still they cannot preform within the contract period.
    If it is money, some sh ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    i can see you have gov job, And don't want to do real work..People that work hard can work anywhere..They don't have to depend on their father,brother or mother getting the a job to stand around do nothing and wait for end of ...
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  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    Wow!!! Nice one. A part of that, state institution must implement the checks and balance to avoid the sold out and bankruptcy. Unfortunately, the idea of capitalization is deepening in the head of many Africans scholars witho ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    That is the best

  • JOHN DADZIE 10 years ago

    Privatization is a huge solution, if not the best solution, to all the electricity-related problems Ghana has been facing since Nkrumah left the political scene.
    The huge manufacturing and service industries community in the ...
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  • The Truth 10 years ago

    Can you produce studies that support your suggestion ? Some of you guys just say anything you like without any analysis to support it. Until you can produce analyses and reports to support your rubbish, just keep quiet.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    look to any WHITE country and see if you find 100% gov owned electric or water systems..Lots of water systems are gov owned.. But 505-75% of electric systems in usa are private companies! Gov employees are LAZY,Theives...They ...
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  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    Once you are saying government employers are lazy. What can one do to keep them busy and are they needed even? Can these lazy ones be resigned or cancelled? You talked about kickbacks, why do we have to accept that these few ...
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  • James B. Otafregya 10 years ago

    Privatization is the ONLY solution and the advanced countries have made this experience.

    The fact is that, while nobody feels ownership for a public company, a private one belongs to one or more people who won't tolerate a ...
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  • Nationalist 10 years ago

    THOSE WHO TAUT PRIVATIZATION AS THE ONLY SOLUTION NEED TO HAVE THEIR HEADS EXAMINED. TAKE A LOOK AT THE WORLD AND SEE WHAT PRIVATIZATION HAS DONE TO THE WORLD. GREED, DESTRUCTION OF FAMILIES, LOW WAGES FOR WORKERS, EXCESSIVE ...
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  • Samson 10 years ago

    The truth? You dont have to go far. Go to the UK. Before Margret Thatcher come to power the utilities in Britain were performing badly by British standards, nothing as bad as we have in Ghana though. She analysed the problem ...
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  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    Sorry, but i´m not one with all what you have said. Today many power supply companies in the UK meet to negotiate on what market price to be offering to the public. Once this deal done every competition die. I don´t see why ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    The best and the solution of it all may be to privatise Parliament. What about that?

  • SOKOTO 10 years ago

    Was it a wise idea to sell Ghana Telecom and Ghana Water Company Limited?

    That was the most craziest thing we ever did.

    You don't sell your house, because you have a problem at home. You face the problem and solve it.
    ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    you wouldn't have a cellphone at reasonable price if depending on Ghana Telecom..You might even be doing it the american way( 2 year contracts,with locked phones)...so FUCK YOU NIGGER!

  • ANDOH 10 years ago

    DAN YOU ARE OUT OF COVERAGE AREA.GET LOST.PRIVATISE MA TE MEHO SHIT.ANY WAY WHY DON'T YOU BUY IT YOURSELF,MY HOUSE NIGGER WITH CELLPHONE SIR JOHN BULL,

  • KOFI GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    SOKOTO THE PROBLEM IS OUR PPL IN AUTHOURITY HAVE REFUSED TO ENGAGE FELLOW GHANAIANS TO SOLVE SUCH SIMPLE PROBLEMS. TO ME THE ENERGY SITUATION IS A VERY EASY ONE BUT GETTING THE RIGHT PPL IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME I ...
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  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    So this is where, we can see that, it is the political parties who are our down fall. We need to find a strategy to over come the political mess.

  • Timur Baruti 10 years ago

    This is a foolish idea. WAKE UP AFRICANS. AFRICANS MUST RUN YOUR OWN RESOURCES. DO USA, EUROPEAN OR ASIAN COUNTRIES ASK AFRICAN COUNTRIES TO RUN THEIR STATE OWN COMPANIES? THIS IS UTTERLY FOOLISH TALK.

  • ANDOH 10 years ago

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK.LIFE SAVER.MY BRO ALLAH/GOD BLESS YOU.

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

    Privatizations do not always lead to the efficient provison of sevices at a cheaper cost to consumers.They are welcome if only such privatizations will not lead to the abnormal increase in the cost of services provided by the ...
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  • Nationalist 10 years ago

    THOSE WHO TAUT PRIVATIZATION AS THE ONLY SOLUTION NEED TO HAVE THEIR HEADS EXAMINED. TAKE A LOOK AT THE WORLD AND SEE WHAT PRIVATIZATION HAS DONE TO THE WORLD. GREED, DESTRUCTION OF FAMILIES, LOW WAGES FOR WORKERS, EXCESSIVE ...
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  • Mr. Pink 10 years ago

    I think the energy market needs to be deregulated to allow private companies to compete with the state owned company if they choose to remain in state hands. I can tell you that VRA and ECG will be bankrupt at some point as p ...
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  • Nationalist 10 years ago

    THE US MODEL IS NOT THE ANSWER TO GHANA'S PROBLEMS. THAT IS WHY THE US HAS TOO MANY SOCIAL PROBLEMS. GHANA NEEDS TO BALANCE THE US MODEL WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS.

  • Joycelyn Ghanaba 10 years ago

    I suggest Public Private Partnership model should be introduce to State-Owned Power Companies on Lease hold bases with time bound Period in order to access the success or failure. I do not agree with outright sell. We should ...
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