The president of Ghana has told his people that Nigeria is the cause of his country's persistent power outages which he is not happy about.
The President of Ghana, John Mahama, on Wednesday blamed Nigeria for his country's power outages.
He revealed that the delay in the delivery of the crude oil ordered from Nigeria had created power generation problems for his country as he revealed further, that the sabotage of oil terminals in Nigeria occasioned the delay in the supply of crude oil, which Ghana ordered last month.
This is coming as many parts of Ghana, especially the capital, Accra, have witnessed persistent power outages which has lasted four years but was declared over by former Minister for Power Dr. Kwabena Donkor, last year.
Mahama was speaking while celebrating the Eid il-Fitr celebration in Accra as he assured his people the problem will be tackled.
He said, “Recently, there have been some issues with electricity tariffs; the Electricity Company of Ghana has done some work on it. They have done a realignment of their billing system and I believe that people can begin to feel some relief in terms of the bills that they were paying. The bills have been made more transparent so that you can tell with every unit you buy, how much the value of the unit is.
“Aside from that, we have recently suffered some generational problems. I held a stakeholders’ meeting with all those involved in the power sector. Because of sabotage in Nigeria on the terminals, crude oil that we ordered last month has not arrived; and so, it has created some generational problem for us.”
The President said he had asked the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company to start storing at least one month of light crude oil supplied for Ghana so that in the event of any problem at the supply end in Nigeria, adding, “We were not affected the way we are currently affected.
“So, I will crave your indulgence and urge all of you to understand. We are not declaring load shedding, I believe things will be normalised, but we are taking steps every day to ensure that Ghana has security when it comes to power.”
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