Director of ECG, Mr. William Hutton Mensah
Operators of coldstore business in some parts of Accra have lashed out at the heads of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) describing them as ?nation wreckers? who are destroying people?s businesses.
The operators told Today that they do not understand why the Managing Director of ECG, William Hutton Mensah; the ECG Board Chairman, Dr. KwekuOsafo; as well as the Executive Secretary of Energy Commission (EC,) Dr. Alfred OfosuAhenkorah, continue to lie to Ghanaians that the erratic power supply will end next month when they have made many such promises in the past and not fulfilled them.
?We were all here in Ghana in 2012 when the Energy Board chairman and the ECG MD went to President John Dramani Mahama to brief him on our electricity glitches.
The two promised the president that the dum-sor, dum-sor (erratic power supply) will end in November last year, and the president believed them, because they are experts. That is the main reason why the president assured Ghanaians that the erratic power supply will be a thing of the past,? one of them pointed out.
The livid operators noted that the continuous load shedding exercise is beginning to throw some of them out of business.
A recent visit by Today to some dominant cold stores in Accra showed that some operators have shut down due largely to the frequent power outage.
Affected cold stores include ones at Santa-Maria and markets in Anyaa, Ordorkor, Mallam, Mallam-Atta, Dansoman, Salaga, Osu, Agbogbloshie and Kaneshie.
Narrating their ordeals to Today, the operators lamented that the frequent power outage is so persistent that they have had to throw away unspecified amounts of food items that were decomposed.
The food items include sausages, chicken parts, fish, and beef.
In the case of Mallam Atta market in Accra New Town, the cold store operators cried that: ?They have lost about GH?60,000.00,? and a number of their freezers have been destroyed .
In Kaneshie market, the operators of First Light Cold Store, a large facility which supplies fish to small-scale operators in Odorkor, Bubuashie, Zongo Junction, Mataheko and Dansoman, told Today?s investigating team that they now spend GH?1,000.00 every day on diesel for their electricity generator.
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