Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah, has blamed erstwhile\u00a0Kufuor administration for the country’s unending\u00a0power challenges.<\/p>\n
According to him, former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration failed to significantly improve the available power thereby complicating the problem as demand increased\u00a0over time.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”0ZFo8ovhe4R25YQNexFrh2GtCeg3H8dV”]\u201cI\u2019ve said we\u2019ve had challenges for instance in the power sector and this is not a secret and the challenges in the power sector were not created by the NDC. They were created by governments like the NPP who during their era hardly added any megawatt of power to Ghana\u2019s total power production capacity,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Spio Garbrah said although the power crisis has been a major challenge for the country, Ghana is still far ahead of many\u00a0other West African countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s one area where I think we\u2019ve all had challenges but in spite of that, Ghana is still a country that is ahead of most African countries in power production. Nigeria with over 180 million people has about 5,000 megawatts of power; but Ghana with less than 30 million people has 3,000 plus megawatts of power; so if you do the mathematics and arithmetic, you will see that we are far ahead of almost all our West African countries. In fact, there are about five or six West African countries which when put together have less power production than Ghana. Some of them have<\/p>\n
Dr. Spio Garbrah noted that, since the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took over the management of the country, it has added more than 1,000 megawatts of power to the national grid \u201cand the number is increasing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumsor<\/strong><\/p>\n Ghana has for the past four years been experiencing erratic power supply which collapsed some businesses.<\/p>\n Government in a bid to alleviate the effects of the crisis,\u00a0imported two power ships to augment the country\u2019s power supply, imported other power plants as well as partnered a number of private firms to\u00a0boost generation.<\/p>\n I’ll fix dumsor<\/strong><\/p>\n President John Dramani Mahama in 2015 promised to end the power crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n He said past governments have managed the crisis but he plans to end it.<\/p>\n \u201cI do not intend to manage the situation. I intend to fix it. I John Dramani Mahama will fix the energy situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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