[ 2017-02-28 ]

Don’t blame Mahama for recent dumsor- Jinapor
A former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor has
hit back at critics blaming former President John
Mahama for the recent power crisis experienced.

According to him, the then erstwhile Mahama
government  put in place all the necessary
measures to ensure dumsor does not recur.

“We worked tirelessly the whole of last year we
had reliable power and also had sustainable
power.
The FPSO went off for two months and yet we never
had dumsor.

It, therefore  beats my imagination that the
FPSO goes off for just one week and almost the
whole nation in plunged into darkness.” he said
on the floor of parliament.

Mr. Jinapor stated that the Mahama administration
invested in electricity, expanding it to over 80
percent.

“Access to energy has become a major component
of our system. When we took over, access to
electricity was just about 50%. Today as I speak
to you, access to electricity is 83.5%, second to
only South Africa.”

Boakye Agyarko’s assurances

The Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko had assured
that power supply in the country will normalize
today[February 28] after an earlier promise that
the situation will normalize by the previous
Saturday.

The Minister had earlier attributed the cause of
the recent unplanned power outages to technical
works on some of the country’s power plants.

New deadline to end of dumsor

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 Saturday, February 25,
2017 but it turned out to be false.

The Energy Ministry subsequently issued a
statement extending the deadline to Monday,
February 27, 2017.

“We 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’Ivoire, the [power] situation will normalize
from 27th February 2017,” a statement signed by
the Communications Officer at the Energy Ministry,
King A. Wellington, added.

Source - citibsinessnews.com

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