Workers at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will go on strike today, Monday, April 26, 2021, throughout the country.
The strike will take place from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., according to a circular seen by Citi News.
Staff have been seeking the resignation of the company’s new Managing Director over what they call “incompetence” on his part for the past few weeks.
They also said that since 2020, Mr. Agyeman-Budu has dismissed many petitions urging him to engage the ranks and file in revenue mobilization.
The ECG staff argued that the MD’s continued presence at post would bring the electricity delivery corporation to its knees because “he is grossly incompetent in matters relating to managerial and corporate governance.”
They also accuse their MD of breaching procurement processes.
“A good example is the award of contracts for certain Six (6) substations where the selection committee’s guidelines were ignored and contracts were given to other companies,” the Junior and Senior Staff Union said in a statement.
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“The Union is concerned about the company’s troubling rate of technological and economic setbacks. The current machine failure percentage, according to an optimistic calculation, is over 34% as of February 2021, and there are no clear solutions in place to reduce it in the short and medium term,” the statement continued.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
