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The host of Joy FM’s current affairs show Newsfile has insisted that the Akufo-Addo administration did not end the perennial power outages, popularly called dumsor, experienced in the past.
Samson Lardy Anyenini argues that the roughly four-year power challenges the country faced under former President John Mahama were resolved before the New Patriotic Party (PNP) took office in 2017.
In his program yesterday, Saturday, April 3, 2021, the lawyer told the Director of Communications of the Yaw Buaben Asamoa nuclear power plant, that the current government did not end up dummy and that the debate must continue. This is not the first time Samson has said that this is a show.
But Mr Buaben, who is also the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Adentan Constituency, will not take it lightly.
According to Mr. Buaben, also a lawyer, he argued vigorously saying that it is rather his interventions that have stabilized the system until recently. He tried to explain some of the things the government has done before the current energy crisis.
Below is what happened between the two when they tried to discuss the recent power outages….
Samson: You weren’t done with Dumsor. I think that should be beyond debate.
Yaw: What ended before we arrived? Wasn’t it an ongoing problem?
Samson: You didn’t kill Dumsor.
Yaw: There is that contention right now, there is that contention.
Samson: It shouldn’t be like that.
Yaw: We strongly believe that our interventions stabilized that front and made sure we didn’t have it for a long time.
Samson: You can’t show what intervention you did to end Dumsor because he was done.
Yaw: we stabilize the financial flows, we assume the excess capacity, we are paying the payment invoices, we make sure that the suppliers receive their funds.
Samson: You came to find yourself with an excess of power. Too much power simply means we had no dummy when you took over. You took over and you weren’t happy. It has made us all understand that we were charged with a power that we did not need.
Yaw: Samson, the excess power once installed has to be paid for, that’s the meaning of take or pay. Even if you don’t use. That means if you don’t pay for it, you can’t have that power even though it’s installed. So there was a financial glut that we kept saying that was the reason it wasn’t regular.
We insisted that there was a financial excess, we dealt with it with imagination, we managed to start it up again and on that side we have taken it in hand, we are renegotiating the take or pay agreement, the excess of power that we are bringing in hand in others. That is, it is there that we are now saying that there is no more extra capacity, we have put the installed capacity on hold for some time that we are renegotiating to reduce the cost. We are trying to reduce the total cost of production, we are also rationalizing gas.
You know we’ve moved Karl Power to the west so that we reduce the load from the east, move it to the west, it takes the gas directly from the west and we distribute it so that the network is more effective and the gas mixture is what reduces the cost. Production Ghana has some 12 to 50 higher costs compared to others that are doing it… The table is in the ESRP. So we have worked in the electricity sector but unfortunately for us… ..
