Minority to summon ECG MD over new AKSA contract

The Minority in Parliament is alleging the government through the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has signed a new power purchase agreement with AKSA.

According to the Caucus, this is in contrast with the government’s claim that the country does not need new power generation plants. 

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee, John Abdulai Jinapor, who made the allegation, told the media in Parliament on Monday, January 23, that the new contract has a 10-year duration. 

The former Deputy Power Minister said this contract was signed on the blind side of Ghanaians. 

“So as it stands, the plant has been fully paid for and yet this government has signed this new contract through ECG for a 10-year tenure

“I sit on the Mines and Energy Committee as Ranking Member and that committee has the powers to supine for documents and the chairman has ruled that ECG should immediately furnish the committee with the AKSA contract (new contract) and more than a month, ECG has refused to do so. 

“So we are waiting to resume and we shall summon the ECG MD to demand that document (new AKSA contract) because it is a document of an institution owned by the state,” he stated.