Hamza Suhuyini, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) communication team, has expressed his worries regarding the ongoing failure of state institutions to meet their financial commitments. He attributes this issue to a culture of excessive dependence on government intervention.
During an appearance on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Wednesday, June 18, Suhuyini criticized the chief executives of public agencies for what he termed a lack of accountability and inefficiency, particularly in managing state-owned enterprises.
“We have reached a point in this country where chief executives must be held accountable for their actions. We need to observe how they are operating their respective organizations. However, this complacent tendency to shift all responsibility onto the government creates a protective barrier that allows many of them to remain inefficient, especially when they are appointed to drive meaningful change in these sectors.”
Suhuyini noted that numerous state institutions frequently disregard debts owed to other government agencies, particularly the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), as they anticipate government intervention when disconnection is imminent.
“We do not take the debts we owe to other state institutions seriously. State institutions act this way because they believe the government will step in whenever disconnection is on the horizon, simply because they are all government service providers. Therefore, the motivation for managers of these state institutions to meet their debt obligations to ECG is lacking.”
His remarks come in the wake of ECG’s nationwide disconnection initiative, which resulted in Ghana Water Limited (GWL) being cut off from the national grid on Tuesday, June 17, due to a debt exceeding GH¢999.6 million.
ECG officials have stated that the purpose of this initiative is to recover substantial arrears from both public and private entities to enhance financial sustainability in the power sector.
After the disconnection of GWL, ECG’s task force also disconnected the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) over an outstanding debt.
Source: HotFmOnline.com
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