Energy Expert Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey has asked the Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin to account for his stewardship as Board Chairman of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Akufo-Addo administration before he criticizes the government’s decision to implement the GHC1 levy on petroleum products.
Dr Wereko-Brobbey’s comment comes as the Ghana Revenue Authority confirms that the amended Energy Sector Levies Act, 2025 will take effect from 16 July, 2025.
Accordingly, consumers will pay GHC1 on every litre of fuel bought, a step the government says is essential to addressing the current dire state of the country’s energy sector, a sector troubled with a debt load of about GHC3 billion.
The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin in June 2025 criticized the government for introducing what he called a backdoor E-Levy in the form of the GHC1 levy on fuel. This was after Parliament approved the controversial bill in the early hours of 4 June, 2025.
Speaking on the matter, Mr. Afenyo-Markin said “You presented your budget saying you are not going to introduce new taxes and levies, then you turn and say you are repealing e-levy, but now you are bringing back e-levy. You repeal e-levy and reinstate e-levy….This is not what Ghanaians voted for”.
But, in an exclusive interview with onuaonline, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey chastised Mr. Afenyo-Markin for his comments. He accused him of leading the Electricity Company of Ghana, the ECG as board chair to incur a lot of debts, the reason Ghana is in its current energy crisis.
He said the Minority has no right to talk now because members created the problems Ghana is currently facing in the power sector.
“The Minority in Parliament, I think should shut up, because the problems we are facing are largely due to the Minority’s failure to act or their irresponsible acts when they were in government. The only thing I will ask the Minority leader is that he should account for his stewardship of ECG in 2023/2024. If he’s able to account for the huge losses that ECG incurred under his stewardship, we may begin to listen to him,” Dr Wereko-Brobbey said.
He added that the Minority has been trying to still litigate the 2024 elections since the NPP lost power.
“All that is happening in Parliament is an attempt to try and relitigate election 2024 and try to give the impression that everything that is being done successfully under Mahama either started from NPP or was due to some things that we are not convinced about,” he noted.
