The Akufo-Addo administration is currently undertaking complete renovation works in the power sector across the country, a Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu-Bempah has said.
He indicated that some of the transformers are worn out and are being changed. Similarly, some pylons are also being replaced.
This, he said, would obviously be felt in the power supply but that is for the short term. To him, there is no power crisis ‘Dumsor’.
“We are doing a total renovation of the power sector value chain. When you look at certain pylons, when you go to the Ashanti region, a lot of the pylons bringing power from other parts of the country into the Ashanti region are being changed.
“Most of the transformers in this country have major problems, 1963 transformers, 1970 transformers are being changed. Obviously, it is going to affect the power sector but there is nothing like dumsor happening in this country that Mahama wants to capitalise on so that he can get political advantage and use that against us,” he said while replying to former President John Dramani Mahama who had indicated that the government is returning the country to the days of severe power crisis.
Mr Mahama while speaking at a stakeholder meeting with members of the NDC during his “Building Ghana Tour” at Sogakope in the Volta Region, said “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.”
But Owusu-Bempah said major interventions introduced by the Akufo-Addo administration upon assumption of office in 2017 ended ‘dumsor.’
For instance, he said, regarding the gas flow Atuabo Gas Plant, the Mahama administration did 98 million cubic feet but today, the Akufo-Addo government is doing almost 150 million cubic feet.
He therefore expressed surprise that the NDC and their flagbearer Former President John Dramani Mahama are criticising the government for the power cuts that were experienced in parts of the country recently.
“I feel a little bit surprised to hear from a former President who supervised an erratic power supply for a period of 4 years. For four years the whole nation saw how the country turned dumsor yet he has the effrontery to tell the people of Ghana that he has the solution and that we don’t have a solution to the problem, he should bow his head down in shame,” he said.
He added “The major intervention introduced by the NPP government resolved the Dumsor. First, Ghana Gas, the gas flow Atuabo processing plant, we were doing 98 million cubic feet when the NDC was in power, today we are doing almost 150 million cubic feet. Apart from that the ENI, Sankofa gas contract that they signed became one of the most expensive gas contracts in the world, 10 dollars per MMB Cude was signed by Mahama himself.
“We had no choice but to combine Sankofa, Jubilee, and Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme (TEN) oil fields. Today we did what we call Sanzule tie in and we are flowing almost 350 million cubic feet to Aboadze.
“Today, we have done what we call reverse flow, Mahama could not do the reverse flow. Today, we are pushing gas to the eastern enclave supplying our thermal plants in the eastern enclave of the country giving them about 250 and 300 megawatts of generation.
“The Kar Power that he brought into this country that is milking the country, today we are pushing gas there which is also giving us almost 400MW of electricity.”
