The former minister of Energy, Herbert Krapa has hit back at comments made by the Member of Parliament for Yapei-Kusawgu, John Abdulai Jinapor.
John Abdulai Jinapor has raised significant concerns about Ghana’s current fuel reserves, warning of a potential energy crisis.
He revealed that the country has only five hours’ worth of fuel stock remaining, which is insufficient for power generation.
Jinapor further criticized the outgoing administration for failing to procure necessary fuel supplies, despite John Mahama’s transition team’s repeated warnings.
In a sharp rebuttal, Herbert Krapa stated that the John Mahama administration is in government and must keep the lights on as the Akufo-Addo government did.
In a Facebook post, Herbert Krapa wrote, “Mr. Jinapor is wrong. Load shedding does not “loom”. It is caused either by technical or emergency power generation issues or a lack of competence in managing the power sector. Mr. Jinapor seems to be haunted clearly by the latter”.
“By the time of leaving office, President Akufo-Addo’s government left in stock, light crude oil which Cenpower currently generates power with, whilst AKSA continues to take delivery of heavy fuel oil which it generates power with”, he revealed.
He further added, “This fact is easily verifiable with a phone call to both power plants. The responsibility of the new administration is to not only procure more liquid fuel to keep the lights on, whenever liquid fuel becomes required to complement gas supply but also plan competently to avert power supply disruptions. We did it and they can do it too if they can”.
The former minister of Energy added that the NDC government should get to work as they did and stop the needless finger-pointing.
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