Mahama’s gov’t should be blamed for ‘dumsor’ – Energy Ministry

The Energy Ministry has blamed the former Mahama administration for the return of the power crisis popularly called ‘Dumsor’.

Several parts of Accra have recently been experiencing some power outages, which have often lasted for several days.
The Mahama-led government before leaving office insisted that it had fixed the energy crisis.

But the Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Energy, Michael Opam said the claims are false.
“Unfortunately, I don’t want to apportion blames. Unfortunately, because of…I want to say delays in maintenance…if the TAPCO plant was available we wouldn’t have even resorted to Cote D’Ivoire.

“But we had delayed the maintenance of TAPCO to the extent that it was not possible to do it again otherwise that particular plant is gone. So in order to keep the lights going on we have resorted to still running the TAPCO plant when we shouldn’t have,” Mr Opam said on Accra-based Starr FM.

“So…you know…there are certain things that we have done which plunged into that situation and it was all because we wanted to keep the lights on,” he added.