Civil Society activist, Dr Steve Manteaw wants the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to be protected from political interference in order for it to work as expected.

Dr Manteaw said this after opposing the idea of privatising the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

He argued that the privatisation of state entities has not yielded any positive results hence his rejection. "Let anyone in favour of privatisation of ECG give me one example of privatisation,  either outright sale or PSP in the public sector, that has been successful, from the days of the Divestiture Implementation Committee to date. "I strongly believe that if we can find ways of insulating ECG from political meddling, as we did with GCB and Goil, we can achieve the improvement we seek," he wrote on his Facebook page at a time when the Energy and Green Transition Minister, John Abdulai Jinapor inaugurated a seven-member committee to explore options for private sector involvement in the operations of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

The inauguration of the committee is part of the government's efforts to revitalise the state-owned entity.