Parliament paid substantial amount of debt owed before power was restored – ECG

The managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, has disclosed that Parliament settled a huge amount of the debt owed them before power was restored on Thursday February 29, 2024.

Business in Parliament on Thursday morning was briefly disrupted after power supply was cut off by officials of ECG over a GH¢ 23 million debt owed the company, prompting minority to chant “dumsor, dumsor”, which means power outage.

Mr. Mahama clarified in an interview on Thursday night that significant amount of the debt was paid before the power was restored.

“They gave us money, they paid a substantial amount more than half. I see this as something very beautiful, something that we should all look at as a success. It goes to tell the average citizen that nobody is above it. If the Presidency has paid, Parliament has paid then why everybody down giving excuses,” he told Starr FM.

The exercise is part of ECG’s “Operation Zero Balance” initiative which seeks to recover all unpaid debts.

Meanwhile, Deputy Clerk of Corporate and Financial Management Services Division in Parliament, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, yesterday refuted claims that Parliament owed the amount quoted by ECG.

He insisted that parliament had already made some payments but the company’s system had failed to register the recent payments done.

Source:myrepubliconline