Wa Central MP Rashid Perpuo blamed the current power outage on the government’s failure to take responsibility.
He said the power sector was currently saddled with huge debts, creating difficulties for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Speaking on TV3’s Ghana Tonight program on Tuesday, April 23, he said: “It’s not the electrocardiogram’s fault. It’s the lack of responsibility on the part of political leaders.”
The member of Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee added: “We still have about $1 billion in debt.”
There are growing calls for the government to publish a load reduction schedule so that people can plan their lives appropriately.
For example, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Senior Adviser to the President, said it was possible to announce a schedule.
He told TV3’s Duke Mensah-Opoku in an interview on the sidelines of the Government’s Open Partnership and Construction Sector Transparency Forum in Accra on Tuesday, April 23, that “power distribution To make it public, no one but the minister can do that.”of energy because he sees generations and them. [ECG] We are currently considering using it. So they can look at it and say it should be this way in this particular area, but that’s what you have and that’s what you have to use and there’s a spread. So it’s possible. “Said.
Governance expert Professor Bahuru Agyeman-Dua also said that the wisest action to take at this time is to publish the schedule.
“The wise thing to do is to announce the schedule,” Professor Baffour Agyeman-Dua said on TV3’s Ghana Tonight program on Monday, April 22.
He also criticized the government for being slow in finding solutions to the electricity problem.
He believes that given the frequency of power outages, the government should have at least been serious about finding a permanent solution, but that was not the case.
“The government has not been very proactive in finding solutions to the problem,” he said.
Meanwhile, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Public Relations Director Richard Ahiagba admitted that he was frustrated by the power outage in parts of the country.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel of challenges, he said.
Mr Aguiaba attributed the situation to maintenance work being carried out by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
He promised that the work would be completed soon.
“The recent power outages are understandably frustrating. But the end is in sight. Maintenance work is almost complete and we will soon have 24-hour uninterrupted power outages, as we have become accustomed to under the Akufo Addo Bawumia administration. We can now expect access to power.”
Commenting on the criticism leveled against the government by members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the power outage, he said, “The NDC is the last political group to denounce as Ghana has not forgotten the hurt inflicted on the ‘real Damsoul’.” ” he said. Under His Highness Mahama.