{"id":85214,"date":"2015-01-24T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=85214"},"modified":"2015-01-24T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:46:47","slug":"mahama-isnt-responsible-for-power-crisis-sydney-casley-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=85214","title":{"rendered":"Mahama isn\u2019t responsible for power crisis – Sydney Casley Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Mahama is not responsible for the challenges bedevilling the power sector, a\u00a0 Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford has stated.<\/p>\n

President Mahama on Wednesday took responsibility<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>for the crisis the sector has been battling with over the past few years.<\/p>\n

Addressing the Ghanaian community in Germany during his official visit to the country, Mahama said \u201cI accept the responsibility for it and I will work \u00a0to resolve it.<\/p>\n

However speaking on Citi FM\u2019s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, Sydney Casley Hayford said the President cannot take responsibility for the power crisis since it existed before he came to power.<\/p>\n

\"Mahama<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Mahama is not responsible for anything that is going wrong in the power sector.\u00a0It is not his fault…the challenges have been existing years ago before he came to power…,” Casley Hayford said<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”Sl2puECFWAIM66Ihk8RHXcB2Rd8KTSLd”]He rather attributed the challenges to a systemic failure by various institutions responsibile for power supply, saying\u00a0“…we haven\u2019t invested consistently enough in the power sector, we haven’t planned well enough for urban spread and urban growth,we haven\u2019t been able to address the issue of demand on power and energy consistently enough over the years…”<\/p>\n

Ghana has been struggling with inconsistent power supply in the last two years. The President has made some interventions including appointing a new Minister for Power, while power plants have been built to augment power supply but the challenges are still not over.<\/p>\n

Energy analysts and industry players have predicted that the current energy situation might worsen in 2015.<\/p>\n

Germany \u00a0has pledged massive support<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>for Ghana\u2019s energy sector to help strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries and also resolve the inconsistent power supply.<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Mahama is not responsible for the challenges bedevilling the power sector, a\u00a0 Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford has stated. President Mahama on Wednesday took responsibility for the crisis the sector has been battling with over the past few years. Addressing the Ghanaian community in Germany during his official visit to the country, Mahama said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,4],"class_list":["post-85214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}