Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko has stated categorically that as part of the one-year achievement of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-led administration, the persistent power outages; dumsor the country witnessed some years back has been completely dealt with.
According to him “The power situation has been stabilized and dumsor as we experienced it has been brought to a happy end, electricity tariffs have been drastically reduced, which is unprecedented; the huge Energy Sector debts have been reduced with a mechanism in place to address the debt in its entirety.”
In December 2015, the then Power Ministry announced it had fixed an electricity supply deficit that caused years of frequent blackouts resulting in load shedding management across the country.
The crisis which began in 2012 became a talking point in political discussions as the then opposition New Patriotic Party blamed the situation on what it termed as the incompetence of the John Mahama administration.
Speaking at a stakeholder’s engagement on a draft national energy policy organised by the Energy Ministry in Accra, Mr Agyarko stated that in 2010, the Ministry of Energy outlined an Energy Policy and Strategy Framework document that served as the platform for policies and programme towards the development of the Energy Sector.
“The Policy took into account the medium-term development goals by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and other prevailing energy sector developments,” he said.
He added that since then, important changes have occurred in the domestic as well as the external energy scene to necessitate the review of the policy. We also adopted the mantra ‘’Keep the lights on, keep transportation moving, and make energy affordable.”
Boakye Agyarko noted “These developments have come with their peculiar challenges which require policy responses. The Ministry, as part of preparations towards the Ghana Energy Summit held in Accra from June 13-14 2017, put up an expert group to draft an Energy Policy to address issues relating to the future of Energy in Ghana.”
The draft National Energy Policy looks at the energy situation in its present form and where we want to go in the near future taking into account our medium-term development goals as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) all of which energy are the key driver.
The draft policy was presented to the key stakeholders to solicit for comments and inputs to refine the document for the final draft to be submitted to Cabinet.
After circulating the draft policy to some key stakeholders some few months ago some of them provided very useful comments from various bodies to enrich the documents
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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wat is this ***barred word*** minister telling........ok ghana for you
We leave in a country where people can just talk without being subjected to proof. I expect our journalist to ask this Minister how and by what action by this govt did dumsor end.
It was due to incompetence of Mahama Administration that saddled the country with huge energy debts. That is what NPP noted as the reason for the dumsor. After taking steps to resolve it, you now have stable energy supply. You dont hear of generators making noise as you used to, Abi?
Please, don't talk about Dumsor in favour of NDC. NDC under Mahama created the word "Dumsor" to hurt Ghanaians for years and worsen Economy. You have no idea what Pain is...
Dumsor came to an end in December 2015 with the help of the learned Dr Kwabena Donkor.The hero if our time
Shame on you for supporting liars.
If the NDC were to be in power we would be experiencing the dumsor. Pure mismanagement and corruption! NDC could't do anything right!
Which kind of evil men do we have in government now? Even when they know the truth which so clear to all they still lie. Aabah! Dunmsor ended six months to 2016 election. In any case, what has the NPP government done to end dumsor, considering they are barely a year in government. Did they purchase the karpower badge? They even kicked against it. Today, they have extended the deal, why, because they know had they cancel the deal as they lied to Ghanaians they would do, dumsor would have come back.
Please dumso was brought to end before you came. So stop praising yourself for nothing
Mr. Minister stop the l i e s .