The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has increased its annual revenue from 450 million cedis to 1.2 million cedis after the power distribution company went digital, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed.
The Vice President, who was speaking at the National Development Conference under the theme “Moral Vision and National Development,” Dr. Bawumia, declared that the introduction of digitization in Ghana has helped in minimising corruption.
He also told the gathering that the passport office has also seen a significant change in its revenue mobilisation.
He said the revenue of the passport office has jumped from 1 million cedis to 64 million cedis.
“This indicates that the digitization process by the government has reduced corruption,” he added.
He said agencies such as ECG and the passport office have seen a significant improvement in their revenues over the past few years. This is a result of the digitization agenda introduced into their systems.
ECG was making 450 million cedis monthly, but after the digitization drive, the revenue has gone up to over 1.2 million cedis, adding that this is an indication of how the digitization drive has reduced corruption and increased monthly revenue.
“In times past, it used to be easy to lie about your age and get away with it, particularly in the government sector. At the port, for instance, we have introduced the paperless system, and this came with resistance. Some of the customs officers organised demonstrations against the move, but we were firm in our stance. Today, at the offices of ECG, you can buy your credit without any challenges.”
“The challenges with ECG initially were that the revenues were constant and the values were the same. We looked at the architecture of revenue for ECG and changed it. They were collecting 450 million cedis a month as revenue. We sent in a team to work on their system. There were sabotage attempts, such as people sending viruses into the system to destroy our work, but we were resilient and brought in a whole new architecture for ECG. Today, they make over 1 million cedis in revenues monthly. The same happened at the passport office, which went from 1 million cedis to over 65 million cedis.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
