Ghana is a funny country: ECG to disconnect the electricity of the Finance Ministry for owing them Ghc421,038

The Finance Ministry and the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) may soon be unplugged from the national grid, according to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

The two state-owned organizations owe a total of Ghc421,038.02 to the power distribution firm, according to the corporation.

This comes after the task force cut off power to the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) and parts of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), which owed the task force about $48 million, on Tuesday.

The task force commander, Steven Larbi Siaw, declared on Joy FM’s Top Story that no indebted institution will be spared during the revenue mobilization process.

“So, as you already know, we’ve been tasked. We’ve been around to make sure that the indebtedness of the ECG is brought down. So as we’ve been tasked to go ahead, we’re doing just that.

“By either taking the debt that they’re indebted to us, or we make sure that we disengage the supply, for them to follow up to the office to talk to our leaders,” he said.

Mr Siaw went on to say both public and private entities would be next in line for possible disconnections if they did not pay their debts as quickly as possible.

“We have Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Communication Data, UN Development Programme and EOCO and Internal Audit,” the Leader identified.

In a desperate attempt to recover millions of cedis due by public and private organizations, the task force has launched an intensive revenue mobilization operation. The Accra Sports Stadium and the La Palm Beach Hotel were both targeted in the exercise on Monday.

The two entities are stated to be oweing 508,087.37 cedis and 192,073.62 cedis, respectively.

Meanwhile, Mr Larbi-Siaw claims that the team would not stop until all payments owing to them are recovered.

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