Ghana’s new move to privatize its power utility will likely cost more than 3000 workers their jobs in a country that is already battling to create enough electricity supply.
Over the last four months. Ghana has been facing massive load shedding due to acute power shortage following being switched off in Nigeria due to reported oil and gas strike in that country.
Workers hired by Electricity Company of Ghana ECG have lost jobs in Ashanti East region.
There will be more are expected to be shed off nationwide.
ECG Maintenance Officer said privatization of the Ghana utility would result in thousands of workers mislay their jobs.
In upcoming year about 3000 workers of ECG are going to lose their jobs and they are going to add up to the unemployment circumstances in the country.
The result of this is that as they want to sell the ECG. Ghanaians suffer more when they purchase credit from ECG the situation of the credit will be more than fuel Increment.
After Ghana has been wrestling with power outages shortage of gas among others that caused bad power shortage resulting in load shedding.
