On Monday, March 20, the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) and other state institutions were being pursued by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for debts due to the state power distributor.
According to the ECG, the GACL owed GHS28 million, but when the task force stormed into its Accra headquarters on Monday, they immediately paid GHS10 million, leaving them with GH18 million in arrears to settle.
As part of the debt recovery effort, the task team also pursued the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).
The External Communications Manager of ECG, Laila Abubakar, told reporters after the exercise on Monday, March 20: "The national task force is the one that is in charge of the state-owned enterprises, the ministries, departments, and agencies, so we have been going with them. We visited Parliament House. They were owing about a GHS13million; we saw evidence of that. They have committed to paying GHS8.5million.
When we visited the Ghana Airpot Company, they had arrears of GHS28 million, of which they had already paid GHS10 million just before we arrived. We have given them 48 hours to settle the balance in full.
"Now, we are here at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation," she continued, "and they also owe in arrears of about GHS6 million but they have explained to us that because of the way they run their operations they wouldn't be able to cough out the money for us instantly. They have had some discussions with the Minister of Information and the National Media Commission along with the Ministry of Energy and there was some sort of agreement last years. ECG's argument is that there hasn't been any progress, though.
