PUWU and PSWU have called on the government to halt the privatization of Electricity Company of Ghana

The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) and the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) have called on the government to halt the privatization of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). They warn of astronomical tariff increases if a foreign profit-making entity takes over ECG. “Mr Richard Amperbeng, General Secretary of PSWU and Mr Ato Bondzi-Quaye, General Secretary of PUWU, took turns to explain the ECG privatization to representatives of the civil society groups (CSOs), which included Third World Network (TWN), Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), ISODEC, NETRIGHT, Abantu for Development, ECG, and WACAM, among others.” A recent analysis by PSIRU shows the influence of the US government and its Millennium Challenge Corporation in the planned energy privatization.