A former Deputy Minister of Power, John Jinapor said there is no justification for the ongoing power crisis under the Nana Addo-led administration.
The erratic power supply in the country has moved from bad to worst. Given the circumstance, Ghanaians are made to endure 24 hours without light and all manner of explanations have been given by power producers.
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John Jinapor on the Floor of Parliament on Tuesday said President Mahama cannot be blamed.
He said "We 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."
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"We 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," he added.
He indicated that the sporadic energy crisis known in local parlance as dumsor is a result of collective inaction by successive governments.
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Meanwhile, the Energy Ministry has blamed the erstwhile administration for the return of the power crisis.
The Mahama-led government before leaving office insisted that it had fixed the energy crisis.
The Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Energy, Michael Opam said the claims are false.
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"Unfortunately, I don’t want to apportion blames. Unfortunately, because of…I want to say delays in maintenance…if the TAPCO plant was available we wouldn’t have even resorted to Cote D’Ivoire."