{"id":460707,"date":"2018-02-02T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/wapco-still-expecting-payment-for-gas-supplied-to-government\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:30:23","slug":"wapco-still-expecting-payment-for-gas-supplied-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/wapco-still-expecting-payment-for-gas-supplied-to-government\/","title":{"rendered":"WAPCo still expecting payment for gas supplied to government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Friday,  2 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citibusinessnews.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/73441996.295.jpg\" alt=\"WAPCo Supply\" title=\"WAPCo Supply\" width=\"295\" height=\"157\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>In 2016 WAPCo suspended the supply of gas from Nigeria to Ghana as a result of unpaid bills<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517556623_549_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) has told Citi Business News it\u2019s working with Nigeria Gas (N-Gas) to receive outstanding payments owed it by the government of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to WAPCo, it expected the government of Ghana to clear the debt it owes N-Gas after which processes can commence for WAPCo to get paid.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager of Corporate Affairs at WAPCo, Mrs Harriet Wereko Brobbey made the assertion in an interview with Citi Business News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are expecting to be paid anytime from now. We are performing a contract for N-Gas. The contract for supply is between N-Gas and the Volta River Authority (VRA). We are supposed to be transporting on behalf of N-Gas. So N-Gas gets paid and then they pay us for our service,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Wereko Brobbey, however, stated that VRA is currently paying for services rendered by WAPCo as negotiations are ongoing to settle the outstanding debt.<\/p>\n<p><b>Background<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that WAPCo in 2016 suspended the supply of gas from Nigeria to Ghana as a result of unpaid bills by the Ghana government.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Volta River Authority owed N-Gas about $180 million, while N-Gas in turn owed WAPCo $104 million.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Friday, 2 February 2018 Source: citibusinessnews.com 2018-02-02 In 2016 WAPCo suspended the supply of gas from Nigeria to Ghana as a result of unpaid bills The West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) has told Citi Business News it\u2019s working with Nigeria Gas (N-Gas) to receive outstanding payments owed it by the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}