Former Deputy Minister of Energy in the erstwhile John Mahama administration, John Jinapor has chided the Akufo-Addo government for refusing to come out with a load shedding timetable to help Ghanaians manage their activities.
According to the Member of Parliament(MP) for Yapei/Kusawgu Constituency, it should not be a difficult task for the Akufo-Addo government to be truthful to Ghanaians about the challenges facing the energy sector, causing the unstable power supply in the country.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, John Jinapor posited that since the Energy Minister has come out to say that it is no longer an intermittent power outage but rather a systematic power outage, it means that the situation is predictable and expectant, hence, it should be accompanied by a load shedding timetable to help Ghanaians plan their lives with it.
“If you know that there will be a power outage, why are you not giving us load shedding timetable to know which areas will experience the power outage at a point in time so that Ghanaians will plan their activities with the load shedding and not destroy properties with this unregulated power outage?”, he wondered.
He, however, disclosed that the government officials stopped GRIDCo from coming out with a timetable after the company announced that the country is going to experience this “systematic” power outage from now till September this year and that a timetable will be needed to manage the load shedding.
John Jinapor asserted that due to the Akufo-Addo government being economical with the truth with Ghanaians, the various stakeholders in the energy sector are doing blame-game with the electricity challenge; thus, the Bui Dam CEO, as well as the CEO of GRIDCo, the Energy Minister, ECG, and VRA are all giving different accounts of the situation.
“The Minister said it is maintenance and that is why we are experiencing a power outage in the country and even if that is the case, is it not proper that they inform Ghanaians before changing those lines that are weak? Is it difficult to tell Ghanaians that you are doing maintenance work and so some areas will experience a power outage for some period of time? Are they going to intermittently put our lights off till September without giving us a timetable to manage activities as a country?”, he asked.
“While ECG is saying that the power outage will last till December, the Minister of Energy is saying it will end in July. This is why I have issued a statement that the government should be truthful to Ghanaians about whatever challenges they are going through with the supply of regular power to Ghanaians,” he chided.
Source: Daniel Adu Darko/Peacefmonline.com
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Ghanas energy crises is purely mismanegement of these four giants, namely, BPA, ECG, GRIDCo and the helm of affaires, minister of energy. Non of these four pillars involved with the energy sector is telling the facts and the truth to Ghanaians. Ghanaians will continue suffering at the hands of these four giants involed in the Utilisation of power supply for the country. The Managing director of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Kwame Agyeman Budu said its lack of money from the ECG to carry out its operations. The Ghana Grid Company Limited has said that the situation is lack of ongoing maintenance and repair works on various equipment. The Bui Power Authority with its instalations of solar system, Ghans largest solar farm expected tobe completed by the end of the year has been given a green light for feeding the national grid. Ghanaians have realised that there is lack of cordination and co-operation in terms of pragmatic, financial and logistics presentation of handling the energy sector. Theres constant blame game between the four pillars of the energy sector as well as financial and power struggle between the four giants ( ECG, BUI, GRIDCo and Minister of Energy) are the root causes of the management failure to handle the energy crises in Ghana. Political propaganda by the two political parties and lack of financial transparency at the energy sector will continue to suffer and will lead to the collapse of Ghanas industralisation programes. The FACT Is Dumsor is with Ghana and ghanaians are going through the hell of instability and power outages. Give Ghanaians the dumsor time table to enable bussines planning and stop the heaven promises of assurance of constant electricity supply.
Oh so you know the damage dumsor caused and yet you supervised over it for over four years.
If they are delaying, why don't you prepare one by yourself since it is very important document to you