The Minority group in Ghana’s Parliament has expressed concern about the persistent power outages, particularly during peak hours in the West African nation.
A statement issued by John Abdulai Jinapor MP and a Ranking Member on Mines and Energy Committee in Parliament noted that while most Ghanaians have been witnessing intermittent power outages, others have been experiencing low currents and occasional high voltage, leading to damages to their electrical gadgets and equipment in some cases.
“It is a well-known fact especially, amongst energy sector players that the current outages the country is experiencing are due to gas shortages coupled with serious challenges with the procurement of alternative fuels due to the precarious financial state of the energy sector SOEs.
“Most of the energy sector SOEs have continued to witness worsening financial positions since the assumption of office of President Akufo-Addo and Dr Bawumia, despite their administration receiving over 20 billion cedis in ESLA revenues and about 40 billion cedis in petroleum revenues,” he stated.
According to the former Deputy Minister for Power, more disturbing is the deliberate decision by the government’s communicators and energy sector SOEs to keep mute whilst the ordinary Ghanaian is made to experience this avoidable state of load shedding.”
He, therefore, called on the government and responsible government agencies to come clean on the current state of power outages as a matter of urgency and provide a schedule if need be to enable the ordinary consumer and industry to plan and avoid damages to their electrical equipment.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
