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Energy expert, Kwame Jantuah has cautioned the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) not to play on the intelligence of Ghanaians.
He criticized the management of the company for “taking Ghanaians for a ride” with their explanation that the problem was due to political metering.
“Do politicians know how to install meters? If anything at all, it must come from the inside of ECG because it is a technical thing, it is a specialised thing to install a meter and so if politicians are doing that, who are installing it for the politicians?”
“Don’t let them take us for a ride. We need a holistic introspection of how we are going to handle this ECG thing,” he said during an interview on Radio Ghana.
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The Public Utility and Regulatory Commission (PURC) earlier this week ordered ECG to suspend the use of its billing system software which was over-billing consumers.
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Mines and Energy has promised to get the matter resolved and figure out ways through which affected consumers will be compensated.
According to Mr. Jantuah, if the inefficiency challenges facing are not resolved, it will give government the launching pad to privatize the power distributor.
He suggested that the issues affecting ECG but be critically looked at because “the problem of ECG can be managed by Ghanaians.”
He said although government insists that it has no intentions of privatizing ECG, the Public-Private-Partnership deal being undertaken by the Mahama administration is indicative that the power distributor will be privatized.