The Managing
Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Samuel Dubik Mahama has refuted
suggestions that the revenue mobilisation exercise is one of several
conditionalities from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The ECG has
embarked on a one-month-long revenue mobilisation exercise to recover some
GH¢5.7 billion from individuals and firms who have failed to pay for power
used.
A section of the
public has suggested that the exercise is one of the conditions by the IMF to
help Ghana meet the requirement for a $3 billion bailout.
But Speaking on
the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, April 20, Mr Dubik Mahama
disclosed that the ECG had to embark on the exercise to retrieve monies owed
them to help save the company financially.
“If someone says
this is IMF driven, it is very sad. That means that you don’t want to applaud
ECG, because we took our time, and suffered what we had to suffer to get to
where we are now. The dashboard showed us where we were leaking, where we were
bleeding and what the billing system is saying, and then we lost our moral high
ground by sitting in the office and being owed GH¢5.7 billion”.
“So we said
let’s all move out in one month and see if we can close the gap and see if we
can make everybody happy. Through this exercise, one of the things that will
happen is that we will be able to clean our books,” Mr Mahama told host Bernard
Avle.
Meanwhile, Mr
Mahama has revealed that ECG has been able to recoup over GH¢2 billion from its
defaulting customers within the last few weeks.
Mr Mahama said
he was hopeful his outfit will be able to collect more from defaulters by the
end of the exercise this week.
“We have
collected in excess of GH¢2 billion. That is less than half [of what we
targeted], but we have one more week to go before I am able to give my figures.
I will sit down, do an assessment and then see. Why are people not paying? We
will disconnect and prosecute.”
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