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Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, believes aside outmoded equipment, losses incurred in transporting and distributing electricity efficiently, the current power rationing by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) can also be attributed to government agencies and departments owing the utility provider whooping sums of monies. According to Kwesi Pratt who was speaking on Peace FM, government agencies and departments owe the ECG nearly two hundred and thirty million cedis (230million). �ECG must tell us the truth. Government departments and agencies owe ECG an amount of two hundred and thirty million (230million) new Ghana cedis. Why must Government agencies and departments owe ECG such an amount of money?� he queried. � �If you look closely at their budgets, they (Government and Agencies) allocate utilities bills in their budgets and government pays for it. So I don�t know why they refuse to pay the amount of money they owe ECG. Where does the money given to them go to? This is the case of misapplication of funds,� he bemoaned. The seasoned journalist stressed that until both the ECG and VRA open up to Ghanaians about the real situation on the ground, the country will continue to experience load-shedding. �ECG doesn�t have the financial resources to operate. They (ECG) even don�t have money to import crude oil for the Volta River Authority (VRA) to operate. We will continue to experience this power rationing if both ECG and VRA do not tell us the truth and continue to allocate blame on the West Africa Gas Pipe Line,� he said. The country is experiencing a shortfall in power production and distribution as a result of a cut in supply of gas from WAPCo. The pipeline, according to WAPCo, had experienced a loss of pressure around the Lome, Togo segment after it was damaged by the anchor of an unidentified vessel.