The Minority in Parliament has disagreed with the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) claim that overloaded transformers are responsible for the current irregular power supply.
ECG recently stated customers, warning that their power could be disconnected between 7 pm and 11 pm daily.
Speaking to the media, John Jinapor, the ranking member for the Committee on Energy, accused the government of misusing the Cash Waterfall Mechanism by diverting funds.
He stated that out of the 820 million cedis received from energy sales and the expected 200 million cedis top-up from the Finance Ministry, totalling over 1 billion, Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were supposed to receive 500 million cedis, with the remainder distributed to others.
However, ECG only paid IPPs 120 million cedis. The Yapei MP cautioned that this development would be reported to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Mr. Jinapor went on to say that the Minority had been monitoring the situation of consistent erratic power supply for almost two months and that, contrary to ECG’s claim, they were in the process of maintaining some transformers.
He added that there was a generation deficit, which meant that the generation capacity was unable to meet demand, leading to load shedding, also known as dumsor.
This has been ongoing for about two months. However, he expressed surprise at the Energy Sector managers’ refusal to acknowledge their generation challenge, which was mostly due to the government’s inability to support ECG in procuring fuel.
