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Why The Hell Will You Buy ¢100k Christmas Trees While Owing Electricity Bills? – Agbodza to GACL
The Minority is criticising the management of Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) over its failure to settle arrears owed Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), leading to power cuts in parts of the Kotoka International Airport.
Ranking Member on the Roads Committee of Parliament, Kwame Governs Agbodza, accused the management of misplaced priority.
In January this year, the Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) said it spent ¢128,366 buying Christmas trees for decorating the Terminals.
Commenting on the report that the GACL have had their lights disconnected by ECG, the Adaklu MP, in an interview with JoyNews, said, “If we did not have money to pay electricity bills, why the hell were we seeing Christmas trees costing about ¢100,000 at the terminal buildings.”
Mr Agbodza insists that this amount spent on the festive decor could have been channelled into offsetting the company’s debt on ECG’s books.
With this latest issue in perspective, the Ranking Member explained that he was appalled by the matter and suspects a wider scope of mismanagement of funds at the GACL.
He is calling for a probe to forestall any potential recurrence.
“Maybe we need to combine all of it considering the circumstances surrounding the purchase of the Christmas tree and why they couldn’t pay their bills until the ower was cut off. So that perhaps there may be a much more endemic miscarriage of management going in there that we don’t know,” he told JoyNews.
