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Assistant Minister of Energy William Owurako Aidoo
William Owurako Aidoo, deputy minister of energy, believes that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not have the right to comment on recent power outages because it has presided over an even worse situation.
According to him, the NDC can not continue to comment on the old challenges of being able "one week", whereas these lasted for more than three years in its administration.
Owuraku Aidoo said, "Is not it ironic that a week of power fluctuation has become a new and [John Jinapor] daring to come to the radio and talk to the brave people of Ghana about the existence of a week of electricity fluctuation when his government had presided for more than three years of power outages?
He added that the NDC government can not exonerate from the supposed debt in the energy sector.
According to him, the NDC government left a debt of more than $ 2 billion in the sector it was paying back progressively.
"John and all the members of the NDC must go to the energy field to complain about a week of fluctuating power. And that's the difference between us and them. All propaganda emanates fanciful ideas about debts, of course, there are debts in the system. They left us $ 2.4 billion in debt in the energy section for which we have worked very hard, diligently, to bear fruit. That's the way forward, "he added.
John Jinapor, in Eyewitness News, said the government's excuses for power swings are unsustainable.
He condemned the comments of the deputy minister of energy who said they were irresponsible.
His comment came at a time when many Ghanaians complained of widespread power outages, some of which lasted several hours.
Some civil society organizations have criticized the government for its mismanagement of the situation.
Some have claimed that the situation was due to the mismanagement of financial resources by the government, which resulted in huge debts and inability to pay suppliers.
However, the government had denied in many interviews that the challenge was financial.
Adams Mutawakilu, a minority member of Parliament's Energy Committee, said the problems were due to liquidity problems, but the government said it was wrong until Monday, he said. return.
At a press conference, Energy Minister John Peter Amewu acknowledged that financial problems had delayed the process of solving the energy problem.
"Our main challenge has been the incomplete reverse flow project of bringing gas from west to east. We had to speed up the process bypbading the bypbad but not yet connected to the West African pipeline. This is because WAGPA has not proposed a reverse flow rate and WAPCO will not sign the toll-free Gas Transmission Agreement (GTA).
"[The new amount] will now be approved by the WAGP Committee of Ministers on 30 November 2018, that is to say next Friday, to pave the way for the signature of the GTA, to allow the connection of the bypbad …. can travel from west to east until the flow reversal project is complete.
However, Amewu pointed out that Ghana 's electricity supply problems and power cuts to citizens are now under control.
"The Ministry of Energy wants to badure the public that the situation is now very much under control."
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