President Nana Dankwa Addo Akufo-Addo is coming under an intense and ever rising pressure from anti graft bodies and a section of the public demanding full disclosure of actions taken after investigations into the botched fraud involving the concessionaire agreement that handed over assets of the Electricity Company of Ghana, (ECG), to the Power Distribution Services (PDS). It is four …
Energy Minister, Peter, has mocked the Minority’s claim that it has the names of government officials that fronted the botched power concession agreement. Minority Spokesperson on the Mines and Energy Committee, Adams Mutawakilu, has said that the suspension of the agreement between government and Power Distribution Services (PDS) goes beyond the alleged breaches of PDS’s obligation to provide Payment Securities. …
A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Obuasi East has revealed that the government ignored his warnings not to sign the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS). Edward Enin claimed his warnings were ignored and they “squeezed the necks of someone just to favour a Ghanaian. “PDS from beginning was not clean technically, financially but …
The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa constituency, KT Hammond says he is quite certain that Power Distribution Service (PDS) will not be cleared to manage the country’s power distribution service again after its suspension by the government for some breaches in its concession agreement. KT Hammond told Bernard Avle on The Point of View on Citi TV that, to …
An 18-year-old scrap dealer is in the custody of the Tema Community 2 District Police Command for allegedly stealing electric fuses at a substation of Power Distribution Services (PDS) in Tema. Mohammed Awal, a resident of Ashaiman, was arrested by some residents who saw him removing the fuses from a distribution pillar at the sub-station. He led police to a …
The Member of Parliament for Lower Manya constituency of the Eastern Region, has faulted the Power Distribution Company (PDS) for the latest clash between Krobo-Odumase youth and officials of the power company. Ebenezer Terlabi said PDS ignored his plea not to disconnect power supply to the people until after resolution of the claim of overbilling, which had been the underlying …
Some irate youth of Yohe, a suburb of Odumase-Krobo in the Eastern Region on Wednesday, 22 May 2019 clashed with officials of the Power Distribution Service Limited (PDS), after the officials of the state power distributor resumed their mass disconnection exercise in the area. A police situation report said about 10:00 GMT, PDS officials of the Krobo district switched off …
