The Member of Parliament for Pru East and a former Minister for Power, Mr Kwabena Donkor has sounded a word of caution to government that, Ghana may experience power outages (Dumsor) if nothing is done on the current power generation capacity.
He said, on February, 15, 2022, Ghana’s peak of power demand was 3,343mwt whilst total available power was 3,527mwt, explaining that, Ghana only had 180mwt of reserved which is really dangerous to the country.
The former Minister further said the demand for power in the country increases by seven (7)percent each year and for the past five years “Ghana has not generated a single megawatt to the national grid).
He said this in Parliament while speaking with the media.
Mr Kwabena Donkor advised that government and as well policy makers take immediate measures to resolve the situation before things get out of control.
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E-Levy: Gov’t can only collect GHC3.5 billion out of GHC6.9 billion- Kwaku Boahen
The Deputy National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kwaku Boahen has asserted that the government cannot achieve its 6.9 billion estimated revenue with the collection of the E-levy.
According to him, this is because the government has lost almost five months of collection.
Despite the above, he intimated that government may be able to collect only about 3.5 billion at the end its term.
Nonetheless, he said that money cannot do exactly what government is saying it will do with the E-levy, explaining that even the money spent by Flagstaff House in a year is almost 3.8 billion.
With the 3.5, Mr Kwaku Boahen said government cannot even take care of the Jubilee House, adding that it (government) lied about what it will use the money for.
The E-Levy was passed, the Minority on Tuesday, March 29, 2022.
On March 31st, 2022, the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo signed the E-Levy into law.
This was irrespective of the fact that the Minority did not accept the manner in which the levy was passed and had sent the matter to the Supreme court to declare that the approval of the E-levy was contrary to law.
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