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Five members of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) are legally challenging the move by the government to partially privatise the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

They have filed an application praying the Human Rights Court to direct the government to “cease forthwith from undertaking or continuing any process of any kind whatsoever to privatise the Electricity Company of Ghana”.

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosah, a pathologist; Naa Kordai Assimeh, a legal practitioner; Mr. Kingsley Kwasitsu, a retired teacher; Dr. Adolf Lutterodt, an Educationist and Ms Dede Amanor Wilks, a development specialist, also want the court to order the government to take immediate and effective steps to settle its $400 million debt to the ECG.

Buttressing their point on Okay Fm’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Dr. Adolf Lutterodt said Ghana’s independence has become meaningless if there is lack of leadership to effectively control the affairs of state enterprises.

He maintained that lack of leadership is responsible for the influx of corruption in every public sector, as monitoring and evaluation processes are not there to check on people to do the right things in the country.

He stressed the attitude of Ghanaians towards state enterprises will change if there is effective leader to use the punitive institutions in the country enforce the right things; thus it is only the way to correct the bad attitude of Ghanaians towards work.

He feared the rate at which successive governments are selling state enterprises will enslave the citizenry and undermine the sovereignty of the country as Ghana is losing control of the commanding height of the economy which the ECG is part of.

“…we think it is very important to take command of the productive sectors of the economy and one of the areas is that of the electricity (energy)…it is like enslavement; going back to the former times where we were a colony and nothing belonged to us,” he bemoaned.

“If we don’t do that, what is the meaning of our independence? If we are not able to do that then what does it mean? It means that our sovereignty and independence is meaningless…this means that we are a second-class human beings that we cannot manage our affairs. Ghana lacks effective leadership and that explains why we are selling our assets to foreigners,” he charged.