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General News of Saturday, March 16, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-03-16
John Jinapor, former Deputy Minister of Electricity
Former Deputy Minister of Electricity John Jinapor wants the government to explain the reasons for the recent blackouts.
He explains that all the explanations provided by the government so far are patently false, since the recent power outages all over the country are due to a huge financial burden for the energy sector .
This week marked the fourth time in three years that Ghana was facing an almost total shutdown of the network, a situation that the government blamed for the disruption caused by the construction of the highway interchange at Pokuase-APC Junction.
Expressing in Eyewitness News, John Jinapor insisted that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) should tell the truth to the Ghanaians and admit that energy rationing had become necessary because of the debt of the main actors in the power distribution chain.
According to him, the construction of the highway interchange, as claimed by the government, was stopped before the start of power outages.
"Because you do not have money, you tell us today, when we live in the dummy, that the very work that has been stopped is responsible for shedding. It does not mean anything.
"There are persistent power cuts because we are not paying for the energy we consume. We are running huge losses. Take a holistic approach and recognize that there are serious financial problems. Let's all go together to see how we can solve these problems. We can not continue to blame this problem for tripping. If you knew you were going to upgrade and it would affect transmission, it would have been wise to publish a schedule in advance. This is an attempt to deceive the people of Ghana. They have a major challenge and this government should accept, concede and let it solve it, "he added.
Why debts?
The MP for Yapei / Kusawgu accused the government of misappropriating the funds needed for the modernization of the energy sector.
He also accused public service providers of mismanaging the resources allocated to them for the purpose of helping them serve citizens with a substantial amount of energy.
"They do not use the ESLA tax properly. The ESLA tax is supposed to generate more GHc3billon each year. And we should use that to pay the debts and use some of them to mitigate the difficulties. They instead borrow money and use it for the pension fund. MMMDAs, MDAS do not pay for the fuel that they consume. This creates a major bottleneck in the value chain. Electricity distribution agencies do not use the available resources effectively. That's why we see this huge accumulated debt. "
GRIDCo asks PDS to redistribute electricity. The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has warned that households should expect power outages in the next five days after informing the Electricity Distribution Service (PDS) to begin redistributing electricity. 39; electricity.
GRIDCo said in a statement that the disturbance of Pokuase had "limited the capacity of the transmission network".
"As a result, GRIDCo advised Power Distribution Services (PDS) to redistribute loads to various bulk supply points to ensure system stability. This could lead to breakdowns for some consumers of electricity, "the statement said.
GRIDCo CEO Jonathan Amoako-Baah had stated that he expected the challenges to last a few days.
The company also pointed out that there was no load shedding in progress.
ACEP urges GRIDCO, others to be more open with consumers
The African Center for Energy Policies (ACEP) has called for greater transparency from GRIDCo while Ghanaians are more interested in a possible downward shift in the burden that has marked the country's energy crisis. about six years old.
Over the years, GRIDCo has not provided complete reasons for these events.
In a statement, ACEP pointed out that "GRIDCo, and even every electricity supplier, must inform Ghanaians well in advance of the hiccups in the system in order to avoid the kind of confusion and confusion. Public agitation that we are witnessing now. "
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