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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) owes millions of US dollars to the nine Independent Power Producers (IPPs) supporting the state-owned energy sector. One of the plants, Sunon Asogli, completely shut down in October due to a debt of $259 million. The other eight IPPs in the country have also complained about the government’s inability to pay them for the power they generated and distributed to the nation. Speaking on Joy News’ Newsfile on Saturday, November 23, with Samson Lardy Ayenini about the power crisis in the country, the Acting Managing Director (MD) of ECG, Ing. Asamoah David, revealed that the debt…