The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has directed the Ghana Schooling Service (GES) to pay electrical energy payments owed by Senior Excessive Colleges (SHS).
This comes after the Auditor-Common’s report revealed that a number of faculties within the Northern Area owe important money owed to the Electrical energy Firm of Ghana (ECG) and the Northern Electrical energy Distribution Firm Restricted (NEDCo).
At a sitting in Tamale, PAC requested GES to take full duty for these payments to stop energy cuts.
A number of SHSs have suffered energy outages over collected payments owed to the ability distribution firms.
In February 2024, ECG minimize the ability provide to Accra Academy Senior Excessive College over a GH¢480,000 debt, forcing college students to depend on torchlights for finding out.
In April 2023, ECG disconnected the administration block and grasp’s bungalows of the Mfantsiman Ladies’ Secondary College within the Central Area.
The disconnection was finished after the college didn’t pay an quantity of GH¢316,160 owed to the ability distribution firm.
Equally, the administration and grasp’s bungalow of the Biriwa Secondary Technical College had been additionally disconnected for failing to pay an quantity of GH¢112,300.
This prompted the Nationwide Affiliation of Graduate Lecturers (NAGRAT) to name on parliament to summon the Minister of Schooling to clarify the ability outages.
The Vice President of NAGRAT, Jacob Anaba, stated parliament wanted to intervene to carry an finish to the electrical energy disaster within the faculties.
“The Ministry has not been proactive. For us to be owing the third quarter and fourth quarter, and we’re not even speaking about this yr, then there’s a major problem. I’ll urge Parliament to ask the Minister to Parliament to clarify to the Ghanaian public what is going on for us to get understanding,” Mr Anaba stated.
In the meantime, the Managing Director of the Electrical energy Firm of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik, disclosed that Senior Excessive Colleges owe the ECG over GH¢45 million arrears.