Mahama to government: Privatise operations of ECG

The former president John Mahama has suggested to the government to privatise the operations of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

Mahama is optimistic this will help inject some efficiency into the operations of the company and also help with revenue mobilisation.

Speaking at “The Leadership Series”’ at the Academic City University College in Accra over the weekend, Mahama said privatising ECG is critical.

“It is something that we need to look at again because ECG as state-owned enterprise is not able to collect its money efficiently, it needs some private sector injections,” Mahama said.

“One of the things we need to do is to roll out prepaid meter as quickly as possible, because if you have a prepaid meter, nobody will come and read your meter and bring a bill and you won’t pay and all that..”

Mahama added: “And so I do believe we must still seek the privatisation of the Electricity Company of Ghana, so that we can inject more investment into it, because some of that money was going to provide more money for prepaid meters and also improve efficiency of collection of bills.”

Listen to John Mahama in the attached audio clip below: