STOP THE TALKING, FIX THE LIGHTS BEFORE THE 24- HOUR ECONOMY BECOMES A 24 -HOUR BLACKOUT- MINORITY TO GOVERNMENT.

Minority Caucus in parliament has raised the alarming state of Ghana's power sector and charges the NDC  government and the energy minister Mr John Jinapor to stop the talking and fix the lights  before the 24 hour economy becomes a 24 hour blackout.

Addressing a press conference held in Accra, the ranking member of the energy committee, Mr.  George Kwame Aboagye, also the  MP for Asene-Akroso-Manso. described the current power outages as “a national emergency” and condemned what they called the government’s persistent “lack of honesty, poor planning, and administrative failure” in the energy sector.

The legislators lamented the toll the erratic power supply is taking on households, businesses, and public institutions. They cautioned that the government’s much-publicized 24-hour economy policy risks becoming meaningless if the country cannot guarantee consistent power supply.

According to the Minority, they expect the Energy Minister to confront the challenges facing  the sector, head -on rather than resorting to political rhetoric. 

He explained that, the NDC  administration when leaving office in 2017 left the sector in critical condition which culminated into legacy issues.

“The time for excuses is over, the government must come clean on the true state of Ghana’s energy sector and publish a load-shedding timetable if it cannot resolve the crisis immediately.”

The Minority also questioned the silence and inaction of key institutions, including the Energy Ministry and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), urging Parliament to play a stronger oversight role in holding these bodies accountable.

Report by PKB