BEVERLY HILLS, July 8, (THEWILL) – Ghanaian President, John Mahama, has declared that the activities of militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), in Nigeria has created power generation problems for his country, leading to outages in many parts.
Mahama revealed that delays in the delivery of crude ordered last month from Nigeria to power thermal plants in Ghana has caused a massive shortfall in electricity production.
The added that he had asked the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company to start storing at least one month of light crude oil supplied for Ghana so reduce the effects in the event of any problem at the supply end in Nigeria.
“We have recently suffered some generational problems. I held a stakeholders’ meeting with all those involved in the power sector. Because of sabotage in Nigeria on the terminals, crude oil that we ordered last month has not arrived; and so, it has created some generational problem for us,” he revealed.
“So, I will crave your indulgence and urge all of you to understand. We are not declaring load shedding, I believe things will be normalised, but we are taking steps every day to ensure that Ghana has security when it comes to power.
“Recently, there have been some issues with electricity tariffs; the Electricity Company of Ghana has done some work on it.
“They have done a realignment of their billing system and I believe that people can begin to feel some relief in terms of the bills that they were paying. The bills have been made more transparent so that you can tell with every unit you buy, how much the value of the unit is.”
