The Minority in Parliament has blamed the current power outages in the country on mismanagement, not technical issues, as has been bandied about.
According to the Ranking Member of the Energy Committee of Parliament, John Abdulai Jinapor, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is misleading the public regarding the frequent “dumsor” in the country.
Addressing the media in Parliament, he criticized the ECG for attributing the outages to overloaded and faulty transformers, insisting that financial mismanagement is the root cause.
“The widespread load shedding is a result of financial issues, not technical glitches as claimed by the ECG.”
“…The ECG is misinforming us of the real issues of the recent power outages. Instead, they are attributing these outages to overloaded and faulty transformers, which is not the case,” he said.
“We have been monitoring the situation and just yesterday, we laid hands on the PURC’s cash waterfall mechanism Validation Report for January 2024. I can confidently but sadly confirm to you that the current load shedding is not technical, it is financial. It is due to mismanagement.”
“It is gross abuse of the cash waterfall mechanism and mismanagement of the funds,” he alleged.
