A former Deputy Minister of Power, John Jinapor, has stated that the Mahama-administration should not be blamed for the recent erratic power supply in the country.
According to him, the previous government put in place the necessary measures to forestall such occurrence.
“We worked tirelessly, the whole of last year [and] we had reliable and sustainable energy. The FPSO went off for two months and we never had dumsor. Mr. Speaker; it dazzles my imagination that the FPSO goes off for just one week and almost the whole nation is plunged into darkness,” he added.
Speaking on the Floor of Parliament on Tuesday, John Jinapor called on the Akufo Addo government to sit up and deal with the current power situation.
He also boasted that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took over the administration of the country, access to electricity was about 50%, but “today as I speak to you, access to electricity is 83.5% second to only South Africa.”
“We wish to entreat our colleagues on the other side that on Thursday when the budget is presented by the Minister of Finance, we shall keenly monitor to ensure that the energy sector levies and the VAT which they promised are scrapped or not. And the people of Ghana will make a decision on whether they sold their colour television and they have been offered black and white TV or not,” he added.
New deadline to end of dumsor
Following recent erratic power cuts in Accra and other parts of the country, the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko assured that the situation will normalize by end of Saturday, February 25, 2017 but it turned out to be false.
The Energy Ministry subsequently issued a statement extending the deadline to Monday, February 27, 2017.
“We wish to state that with the tie-in operation successfully completed, and coupled with the measures we put in place including procurement of fuel and increased power supply from La Cote d’Ivoire, the [power] situation will normalize from 27th February 2017,” a statement signed by the Communications Officer at the Energy Ministry, King A. Wellington, added.
Source: citifmonline.com
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whom do we blame. a govt who took over and have not even cross 2 months, how can he be blamed for dumsor?. For me I knew your un-dumsor during the election period was a camouflage. You were deceiving us. It wasn't a permanent solution. We thank God NDC did not win the 2016 election like we will have experience 3 and half dumsor until all businesses are collapsed. T h i e v e s. always deceiving Ghanaians. Now we are enlightened and thank God the populace now analyses issues
It will be far better if Gyinapo keeps quiet. You people do not know any shame.
How do John Mahama and John Jinapor expect Akufo Addo and Boakye Agyarko to pay for the GHS122 billion and USD2.4 billion national debt stock and Energy sector debt respectively that they have left behind? You guys used Ameri, Karpower and the rest as a facade to stee-al hundreds of millions of dollars and cedis from the ordinary poor Ghanaian. Less than two months after plunging Ghana into such a mess, you guys want to stampede the new gov't. How do you expect the new gov't to solve major problems that you could not solve in eight years? Your plan is to stampede them with calls to honour their "electioneering promises so they won't have time to investigate your numerous daylight robbery cases while you were in gov't, including the few that I have mentioned above. The basic fact is that NPP have four years to honour their promises and so no amount of pressure from ***barred word*** like you guys will commit them to make mistakes. I wish to confirm to you that Nana will be president for eight years and Bawumia will also be president for eight years. New national ID cards are coming. Foreigners can't vote in Ghana anymore. Your electioneering rigging machine has been dismantled. Just learn to get used to the fact that you will be in opposition for a very long time.
John.. I will prefer to watch Black n White under NPP to your NDC colour TV all the days of my life if My hears will not be hearing insults from people like you. What an insult??
Your mother Wai...wo Maame ni tw3