Ghana's President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, has
assured the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) workers that there would be no
lay-off of staffs during and after the implementation of the New Millennium
Challenge Compact (NMCC).
ECG workers have expressed their fears and worries that when
the NMCC is implemented some jobs would be lost. He gave this assurance at the
TUC's 10th quadrennial congress in Kumasi where the new Secretary General of
the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah, was elected.
The President stated that “Ghana
is implementing a new millennium compact aimed at injecting fresh resources
into our power sector, which has proven to be the actual need skill in our
quest for accelerated economic growth. This compact was based on a detailed
constraint analysis carried out by high powered team led by Prof Sefa Dede.
Based on our agreement under the compact about 500million dollars in grants is
to be injected into the power sector to improve generational transmission and
distribution efficiency over the next five years. The bulk of these resources
will go to improve the organizational and operational efficiency of ECG and I
wish to assure organized labour once again as President of the republic that
there will be no layoffs or retrenchment in ECG as a result of implementation
of this compact.”
Hamidu Abdul-Lateef
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