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Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor has urged that the issue of energy should be discussed void of politicking.

His comment follows recent power outages in some parts of the country popularly known in some circles as 'the return of dumsor'.

Government on the otherhand says the recent challenge does not mean 'dumsor' is back.

According to them, it is due to the total shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant in the Western Region.

Speaking to this on Citi Eyewitness news, Tuesday, Mr Donkor who also faced a similar challenge when in office, said “as a people, we should move this away from partisanship. Let’s look at the real underlying issues. The real underlying issues are financially exacerbated by inefficiencies.”

He said the situation will persist "if we as a people refuse to address the fundamental issues and then only address the symptoms. The fundamental issue is that the Energy sector is financially distressed. If we don’t have a capacity problem, it means we have a fuel problem and a fuel problem is a finance problem. The state has a responsibility as a shareholder to either inject capital into the entities or let the entities in the short term increase their tariffs.”

Law of Karma?

Dr Kwabena Donkor also disclosed how he met the now Minister of Energy, Peter Amewu and advised him against attacking the then NDC administration.

“I told him a couple of years back when he was at ACEP that; ‘be careful how you go about attacking the government. Tomorrow you may occupy that seat,” he revealed.