{"id":297996,"date":"2017-03-01T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297996"},"modified":"2017-03-01T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:04:34","slug":"dumsor-wouldnt-have-returned-under-ndc-john-jinapor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/dumsor-wouldnt-have-returned-under-ndc-john-jinapor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dumsor\u2019 wouldn&#8217;t have returned under NDC \u2013 John Jinapor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, has said the current incessant power cuts \u00a0in most parts of the country would have never happened under a\u00a0National Democratic Congress (NDC) government if they had won the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the NDC would have been more assertive and effective in managing the situation in a way that would not result in the present situation.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cEbMeAlP3X2n0XFWnyMOUldUYzVR7OVZ&#8221;]Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, he said although the NDC faced a more challenging situation, it managed it better to prevent Ghanaians from experiencing the full impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever [this wouldn\u2019t have happened under NDC], given the investment we made, the general capacity that we put in place, the fact that we put in place a deliberate, concrete, but difficult decisions to restructure the energy sector financial system and began paying the banks. In August, we paid the banks 250 million, we paid almost all the various stakeholders with the energy sector levy which the NPP government says it will scrap. We faced a worse situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is planning. Clearly when you know that you are going for a shutdown of the FPSO, you do what we call staggering. You phase the maintenance schedule, you don\u2019t box all of them into a particular period and run the risk of knocking off all the plants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that the NDC government in anticipation of the scheduled maintenance, drew a schedule with the management of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to ensure a smooth operation despite the maintenance works, but the NPP government unfortunately fired the CEO of the Authority immediately it came to office.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the floor of parliament on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, on the same subject in reaction to a statement from the Ministry of Energy\u00a0that stated that &#8216;dumsor&#8217; wasn&#8217;t over with the election of anew government,\u00a0Mr Jinapor said \u201cWe [NDC] 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the NDC took over power in 2009 when access to electricity was about 50%, but \u201ctoday as I speak to you, access to electricity is 83.5% second to only South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New deadline to end of dumsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/25\/power-situation-will-be-normal-from-today-boakye-agyarko\/\">Saturday<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, February 25, 2017, but it turned out to be false.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Ministry subsequently issued a statement <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/27\/dumsor-to-normalize-from-today-energy-ministry\/\">extending the deadline<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>to Monday, February 27, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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\u2019Ivoire, the [power] situation will normalize from 27th February 2017,\u201d a statement signed by the Communications Officer at the Energy Ministry, King A. Wellington, added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We inherited a \u201cheavily indebted energy sector\u201d \u2013 Akufo-Addo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s energy sector is currently in a \u201c<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/21\/we-inherited-a-heavily-indebted-energy-sector-akufo-addo\/\">heavily indebted<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d state, President Akufo-Addo told Parliament in his first state of the nation address. According to him, the sector has enormous problems that must be addressed urgently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have inherited a heavily indebted energy sector with a net debt reaching $2.4bn as of December 2016. I have to point out the alarming facts that $800 million of this debt is owed to local banks which threaten their stability and that of the whole financial sector. Indeed, the huge indebtedness of the energy sector constitutes the single major hurdle to Ghanaians enjoying reliable and affordable electricity supply,\u201d Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, has said the current incessant power cuts \u00a0in most parts of the country would have never happened under a\u00a0National Democratic Congress (NDC) government if they had won the 2016 election. 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