{"id":13513,"date":"2025-10-07T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:55:16","slug":"tariff-increments-wont-fix-gwl-ecg-woes-fabag-tells-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13513","title":{"rendered":"Tariff increments won\u2019t fix GWL, ECG woes \u2013 FABAG tells Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"388\">The Executive Chairman of the Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG), John Awuni, has criticised the persistent increases in utility tariffs, describing them as ineffective in resolving the inefficiencies of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"608\">His comments follow FABAG\u2019s earlier appeal to President John Dramani Mahama to implement urgent reforms at ECG, citing the need to address the company\u2019s recurring financial losses despite frequent tariff adjustments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"770\">The association has also issued a 30-day ultimatum to the government to establish a performance compact to measure and improve the efficiency of ECG and GWCL.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"975\">Speaking on the\u00a0<em data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"809\">Citi Breakfast Show<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, Mr. Awuni said repeated tariff increments over successive governments had failed to solve the challenges facing the utility companies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cThe utility companies have been asking for tariff increments since the government of John Agyekum Kufuor. So, if tariff increases were the solution, ECG and GWCL should not have problems by now,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1364\">\u201cWe are not against fair or economic pricing, but the problem with ECG\u2019s losses is not about tariffs \u2014 it\u2019s about poor work attitudes and corruption within the utilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1512\">Mr. Awuni noted that President Mahama\u2019s call for a national \u201creset\u201d should reflect a shift towards structural reform rather than higher tariffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1512\">\u201cJohn Dramani Mahama told us there is a need for a reset \u2014 a realignment. One of the reasons Nana Addo lost power was because of high tariffs and taxes. So, if Mahama\u2019s government is coming to reset, is the tariff increment the reset they promised us? If you are doing tariff increments, then you are no different from Nana Addo\u2019s government,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"2021\">FABAG maintains that only strong accountability mechanisms and institutional reforms will deliver sustainable improvements in Ghana\u2019s utility sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Chairman of the Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG), John Awuni, has criticised the persistent increases in utility tariffs, describing them as ineffective in resolving the inefficiencies of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL). His comments follow FABAG\u2019s earlier appeal to President John Dramani Mahama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788,9,3537,41,4171],"tags":[4054,1187,4172,4173],"class_list":["post-13513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business","category-energy","category-general-news","category-utility","tag-fabag","tag-government","tag-john-awuni","tag-utility-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13515,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/13515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}