The cheek on these people who are supposed to be public servants is unbelievable, as this statement from a staff of ECG shows.
The Managing Director of the company was ‘sacked’ last week by the President, ostensibly for his failure in containing the dumsor situation. Since then, some workers of ECG have been agitating, calling for the reinstatement of their boss, but I’ve never paid them much mind, until I saw these statements.
A myjoyonline report indicates new threats from some staff of the power distributor, and this time they are saying that if their boss does not return, they are going to plunge the country into darkness. They plan to do this by shutting down some substations.
Their arguments, per the report, are that their boss has been made into a scapegoat. His dismissal is unfair, and an attack on the entire working force of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
“If our MD is not reinstated, there is the possibility that we will take a decision that will not go in favour of the government” Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of ECG workers in the Eastern Region told Joy News.
“If we decide to shut the primary substation down, the whole country would be in total darkness, but what we are saying is we do not need to go to that extreme”
I do not know who this gentleman is, except that he has a very misleading name, but as an employee of the most reviled public institution in this country, he’s standing on very thin ice as it is and making such statements of false bravado is not going to help anyone in solving this problem they and their masters have saddled us with.
I argued last week that sacking the ECG head is not really going to bring much change, but that’s only because most of the underlining problems have not been tackled in any way. The truth is if anyone in this country deserves the axe, it’s the head of that incompetent organisation- and being relieved of his duties to be reassigned somewhere else is not exactly the worst fate in the world.
I shudder to think that we leave in a country where despite failure after failure, officials of ECG possess no sense of shame, but can rather come out to say this crap to us, the people of Ghana who they put through untold hardship every, single, day.
And I thought we were already in darkness? The situation in the country right now plunging us into perpetual darkness is not going to make much difference; we’re pretty much there already.
Ghana is just fucked up,imagine that
Ghana is just fucked up ,imagine that ,anyone just wakes up and say anything they like
I told you Ghanaians are their own wore enemies. How the hell does an ordinary workers threatened the whole nation. I know why. Ghana, politically is a very polarized place. So this idiot is doing this because he thinks the opposition will save his bacon. If he were to be fired. Like kids in a dysfunctional home, they capitalize on the divisions of the parents. The solution for this idiot is to be sent home without pay and replaced immediately. I am sure there are lot of qualified people who will take his place. As much as I don’t like Jerry’s antics, this moment calls for Jerry circa 1979. The idiot would have been taken to Gondar barracks, head shaved with broken bottles and slapped till he’s deaf.
guys the truth behind the workers going on strike is this ,MAHAMA N his people plan to sell ECG, so the power crises is not actually the problem they would have solve this problem long ago if they wanted to however the Boss of ECG is a rev a man of GOD to be precise who thinks it not right for ECG to be sold so MAHAMA fires him come to think of it ECG only distribute what they have VALCO and GRID-CO should be held responsible the truth would come out soon. They do dis so that they can PATIENTLY wait for GHANAIANS to say that ECG is incompetent so the government should give it to someone competent or sell it, The truth will come out soon Lets pray for Ghana