Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency, Edward Bawa says the Electricity Company of Ghana is unable to provide a table to consumers due to the government’s adamant posture of insisting all is well with the power sector.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, the Bongo lawmaker, who doubles as a member of the Energy Committee believes petty politics, lack of proper planning, and financial mismanagement have played a crucial role in the current power challenge in the country.
“The managers of the power sector are handicapped because they have allowed politics to play a center role in how they manage that. Anytime you have a situation where for almost a month you have shedding of load between 300mw and 530mw, it is only fair that you allow the distributor to bring out a schedule so that people can plan their lives around it…. but the reason why the distributors cannot publish that is because they are victims of their own utterances in the past,” he said.
Co-panelist on the show, former Member of Parliament for Okaikwei North, Fuseini Issah, however, insists that although at a high cost, the government at the end of the day is keeping the lights on but the host of the show, Dr. Randy Abbey says the deceitful nature of which the power crisis issue is being handled with will blow in “our” faces.
“I have said this in the last 3 or 4 years, this is the same way we handled Ghana’s debt situation, until one faithful day, we were told the president had placed a call to the IMF boss, anytime the issue of our debt situation came up, we had all manner of explanations and all manner of Ivy League expressions to tell us why people are wrong and we are on course and we are fine and everything with Bible quotations and all that, that was the refrain until we landed in DDEP,” he noted.
“How we are handling this indebtedness in the energy sector and creating the impression as if there is no clear and present danger and saying this like we have kept the lights on is the same attitude that led us to a DDEP” Randy Abbey added
The power crisis in the country is worsening by the day as there is no clear plan in sight to curb the menace.
The country is bedeviled with embarrassing situations such as a power outage in Parliament during the State of the Nation’s Address debate as well as numerous communities having faced unpredictable power supply for several weeks without prior notice from ECG.
The government, however, insists it is at the helm of affairs to right every wrong.
By: Vanessa Edotom Boateng | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
