Staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will today, Monday, April 26, 2021, embark on a sit-down strike across the country.
The two-hour-sit-down strike as contained in circular to the workers, indicates the strike will commence at 8am and end at 10am.
Workers of ECG in the past few weeks have been demanding the removal of the current Managing Director of the company, Kwame Agyeman-Budu, over what they describe as “incompetence” on his part.
They also alleged that several petitions to Mr Agyeman-Budu to file mobilised revenue since 2020 have been ignored.
The workers argue that the MD’s continuous stay at post will collapse the company because to them, “he is grossly deficient when it comes to matters relating to administrative and corporate governance.”
The staff have also accused the MD of breaching procurement processes.
“A clear example is the award of contracts of some Six (6) substations where the recommendations of the evaluation committee were sidestepped and awarded to other companies,” the Junior and Senior Staff Union said in a statement.
“The Union decries the alarming rate at which the company’s technical and commercial losses are galloping. A conservative estimate puts the current system loss figure at over 34% as of February 2021, and there are no concrete strategies in place to bring them down in the short and medium-term,” the statement added.
