Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, a Governance expert, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to show a sense of leadership by calling on all the major stakeholders in the power sector and give them stringent orders to solve the power crisis facing the country currently.
According to Professor Baffour, the President has to exercise his leadership prowess by finding an immediate solution to the erratic power outages that has engulfed the country in recent times.
Speaking on Ghana Tonight on TV3, Prof. Baffour noted that, he will be utterly shocked if the president has not engaged the stakeholders already.
Ageyman Duah said, “I will be surprised that the president has not called the leadership of the VRA, GRIDCo, ECG, and PURC, to sit them down to give them the marching order that he doesn’t like what they are doing."
“That is leadership, we need the president to be giving the marching orders. As I said, if he has done it privately I don’t know but based on the public pronouncements by these state agencies in charge of the energy sector, it seems like he hasn’t done that.”
Speaking futher, Professor Agyeman-Duah expressed his greatest displeasure over the seeming snail pace with which the government is tackling the energy crisis.
Prof. Baffour believes that given the rate at which the power outages happens incessantly, the government should have addressed the issue with all seriousness.
He said “the government hasn’t been too active in seeking solutions to the problems.”
Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah called on the ECG to release a load-shedding timetable in order to help consumers plan their activities properly.
According to the governance Professor, the prudent thing the Electricity Company of Ghana ( ECG) has to do is to publish a load-shedding schedule which will enable business owners plan their itinerary.
“The wise thing to do is to issue a timetable,” Prof Baffour Agyeman-Duah lamented.
Source: Kobina Darlington/peacefmonline.com
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority. |
Massa, NPP Government is not serious and they take the Ghanaian for granted as if they themselves have given up hope of "breaking the 8" why are they such liars and then they have the audacity to minimize the dumsor issue as well by comparing it to 2012. Look in 2012, compared to 2024, thanks to Bawumia, everything has moved digital, thus it is an existential crisis when electricity which powers the internet is off. In other words the impact of dumsor now is more than ever very critical due to the digitization agenda by Bawumia. As if that is not enough, Bawumia now wants Ghanaian buses to be charged by electricity when electricity is not even stable, these guys are not serious!! In Ghana the government comes and invest in all sort of things to steal money away, but they don't focus on "national strategic interest". The government that comes and focuses on energy in all of its forms as the number one strategic goal, nothing else but just focus on energy, and see how the country will prosper and achieve huge GDP, and slow down inflation due to the fact that factories will spring up to produce and then locals will consume locally manufactured goods, then surplus will be exported. The only goal should be energy- 1) Thermal energy, 2) Solar energy 3) Wind energy 4)Nuclear energy do these and allow Ghanaians to build the industries
addo showing leadership? haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. That's like saying the pope is getting married on December 7th. Use less two political parties, they have nothing better to offer to Ghanaians. I CALL FOR A BLOODLESS COUP!!!