The Ghana Hair Dressers and Beauticians Association (GHABA) has charged President Mahama to urgently increase efforts aimed at resolving the current power crises to save their businesses from collapsing.
[contextly_sidebar id=”I2loJsbHkvghAlGG0lgK56BarNWg5VC7″]This comes on the back of a revelation by the University of Ghana’s Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) which estimates that Ghana loses over 2 million due to the effect of the power crisis on micro and small enterprises alone.
Government has assured Ghanaians that the current power crises will soon be over as emergency power barges are expected in September to lessen the effect of the erratic power supply however in an interview with Citi News, the Greater Accra President of GHABA, Tina Offei Yirenkyi, said they were fed up with assurances from government.
They therefore asked the Mahama-led administration to act immediately.
“These people need this one[consistent power supply to survive]….someone will go to the shop and bring about 10 cedis home before they can …make ends meet.As for the date it keeps on coming and coming and now as you can see everybody is frustrated because we no longer believe whatever people will say. All that we want to see is to get the light to work, that is all.”
Govt must stop lying
In a related development Energy Think Tank, the African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) is asking government to be sincere with Ghanaians on the power situation.
ACEP says conflicting timelines given for the crisis will end is making government look bad in the eyes of Ghana.
Speaking to Citi News, the Head of the Policy Unit at ACEP, Ishmael Ackah said: “I believe that going forward the government should be able to be sincere to us and give us immediate long term solutions and not say the crisis will end in June because we signed the agreement for the barges last year June.”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana