Ghanaians have been left in the dark as to the date the power badges promised to ameliorate the rolling power cuts (dumsor) will arrive in Ghana.
All relevant institutions are tight-lipped on the matter and will not divulge any information about the expected arrival date.
They will also not say anything about the progress of ground works done at the place where the badges will dock.
Efforts by The Finder to get an update on the power badges were unsuccessful.
When The Finder called Robert, an official of Kar-Powership, the Turkish company to supply the power badges, he directed the paper to the Ministry of Energy, explaining that it has been agreed that all sanctioned communication on the badges should emanate from that ministry.
The Communications Consultant to the Energy Ministry, Edward Bawa, told The Finder on phone that he was out of the office on leave and could not provide the update the paper was seeking.
The power badges were originally scheduled to dock at Tema Port in the first quarter of this year.
But it was rescheduled to September 2015.
However, Mr Alex Mould, Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), which financed the first badge, said in September that the two badges, which are expected to add some 450 megawatts to the national grid, will now arrive in October 2015.
Government failed to meet the first two timelines it announced for the arrival of the badges.
The first contractual 225-megawatts power ship was scheduled to be delivered in Ghana in September this year and the second one was to be subjected to clarification but will be delivered at least 60 days earlier than contracted, Kar-Powership told journalist who went to Turkey to witness work on the badges.
The second power ship will be delivered within “290 to 300 days,” which will be in January 2016, and Kar-Powership is hopeful that they can “deliver the power ships to alleviate the current dumsor problem that Ghana is facing.”
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