{"id":3565,"date":"2024-03-02T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:13:22","slug":"we-owe-ecg-%c2%a212m-not-%c2%a223m-parliament-says-power-distributor-failed-to-capture-bill-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"We Owe ECG \u00a212m Not \u00a223m &#8211; Parliament Says Power Distributor Failed To Capture Bill Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana&#8217;s House of Parliament has clarified that its outstanding electricity bill is GH\u00a212 million and not GH\u00a223 million as widely reported by the media on Thursday, 29 February 2024 following a cut in power supply to the legislature and its office complex for MPs by the Electricity Company of Ghana as part of its &#8216;Operation Zero Balance&#8217; campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Correcting the figure involved, the Deputy Clerk of Corporate and Financial Management Services Division in Parliament, Mr Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror explained that the House made a part-payment of GH\u00a213 million on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, and has a balance of GH\u00a212 million to clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, some of the payments made by parliament were not captured by ECG&#8217;s records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs far as we are concerned, we\u2019ve made payment&#8221;, Mr Djietror insisted in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-b701668e39934021530e0a8f479ea6f5 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bNdUAQSfscQ?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;All the payment we have made, some have not reflected in their system. That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying. Some do not reflect in their system&#8221;, he emphasised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have a breakdown, so, we showed it to the Deputy Managing Director. We are just coming from his office. I said they should reconcile the account&#8221;, he disclosed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the reconciliation, he said: &#8220;We are going to get the bank to extract all the payments we\u2019ve made in terms of the dates&#8221;. &#8220;I\u2019m not sure how it\u2019s captured, so, there\u2019s a gap in terms of the reconciliation as to what is the outstanding bill&#8221;, he told Citi FM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s House of Parliament has clarified that its outstanding electricity bill is GH\u00a212 million and not GH\u00a223 million as widely reported by the media on Thursday, 29 February 2024 following a cut in power supply to the legislature and its office complex for MPs by the Electricity Company of Ghana as part of its &#8216;Operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[156,936],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-ecg","tag-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}