According to him, government is massaging the situation instead of fixing it because they want to hand over the problem to the party that takes over on January 7, 2025.
Speaking at a
Read full article.stakeholder meeting with members of the NDC at Sogakope in the Volta Region, "Today 'dumsor', they're treating it like a football because he wants to kick it over the 7th January 2025 line and hand the trouble over to somebody else, and yet we resolved it before they came into office."
Touching on the new development where there's Value Added Tax on electricity, Mr Mahama said the move will further burden consumers who are already paying more for electricity due to existing taxes on power.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Energy Minister, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has declared that the power cuts experienced in recent times have been resolved.
He stated categorically that Ghanaians would experience constant power supply in their various homes and businesses from Thursday, January 11, 2024.
Egyapa Mercer said this in an interview on Citi Breakfast show on Thursday, January 11, 2024.
On the debt government owes the Independent Power Producers (IPPs), the Deputy Minister of Energy said an amount of $10 million has been disbursed to the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) for gas supply by the Ministry of Finance.
This, he said, reinforces the commitment to supply uninterrupted power to Ghanaians.
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