[ 2021-03-09 ]

IMANI breaks silence on national power outage
Senior Vice President of policy think-tank, Imani
Africa Kofi Bentil has said that a country’s
whose entire power system can shutdown at once is
not safe, adding that if good engineers are being
listened to, such entire nationwide power outages
will be averted.

Mr Bentil’s comment was in reaction to a
nationwide power that hit the country for several
hours yesterday, Sunday, March 7, 2021.

“Someone said the power problem is more
financial than technical. A nation whose entire
power system can shutdown at once is not safe!
Someone is failing badly at his job!! If we are
listening to good engineers we won’t have such
total collapse,” Mr Bentil said.

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) however
explained that the power outage was due to a
challenge in the power system before power was
eventually restored.



Independent Power Producers (IPPs) had warned that
it was going to cease supplying power to
Government if Government failed to pay its debts
to them.

It is unclear whether the power outage had
anything to do with the threat by the IPPs.

Meanwhile the Ministry of Energy is yet to comment
on the shutdown which many say was a security
threat to the country.

Source - MyNewsGh.com

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