A former Deputy Minister of Power under the erstwhile Mahama administration, John Abdulai Jinapor, has taken a swipe at President Akufo-Addo’s 50% electricity power reduction stating that it will make consumers worse off.
According to him, the president’s 50% electricity rebate is meant to mislead the poor Ghanaian who queued to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) into office.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his late-night update on measures taken against the spread of Coronavirus, announced on Thursday that “government will fully absorb electricity bills for the poorest of the poor, i.e. for all lifeline consumers, that is free electricity for persons who consume zero to 50 kilowatt-hours a month for this period. In addition, for all other consumers, residential and commercial, Government will absorb, again, fifty per cent of your electricity bill for this period, using your March 2020 bill as your benchmark.”
Akufo-Addo explained: “if your electricity bill was GH¢100, you will pay only GH¢50, with government absorbing the remaining GH¢50. This is being done to support industry, enterprises and the service sector in these difficult times, and to provide some relief to households for lost income.’
Shortly after the announcement, the Yapei Kusawgu MP, took to his Facebook timeline and explained: “The lifeline Net Charge for Electricity consumers (50kwh) is [GH]¢19.26 a month.
“By spending more time at home during the lockdown, a doubling of consumption, that is say, 100[KWh], will push a consumer to ¢58.93,” John Abdulai Jinapor added.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Massa half loave is better than no bread, is only ***barred word*** minds who don’t appreciate good things. John Jinapor, you’re charging higher even under Dumsor. I still have some of your bills at my possession. Ghanaians were paying higher electricity bills even in Dumsor during the NDC era than today. Every honest Ghanaian will testify to this. You people think everyone is short minded.
These NDC people are wicked and confused.... Sammy Gyamfi was even referring to the fact that Togo gave its citizens free electricity. You guys are only thinking of elections. NDC is an ev!l party. You can decide to pay your full electric bills because you have stolen cash. Corrupt ndc th!eves.
Common sense oo is what some people lack in this country . Imagine you are under lockdown without working , so how could the usage of power under the lockdown period and the previous normal days be the same? And where is the money while you are not working ? Please think ooo...
Oh how? I don't see why any reduction, if even it is 2 cedis will worsen your life. It may not be enough but it simply saves you 2cedis that you would have had to spend. Unless they reduce by 50points and then increase it by say,60points that is the only situation we will be worse off.
Do you have to stand against everything the government does to help Ghanaians. Kindly tell Ghanaians what you did to help Ghanaians apart from coniving with your partners to bring emergency power plants to cheat Ghanaians.I want you to come what have you done apart from politics to help the economy.People know you to be nobody but for politics you talk as if you were born with a silver spoon.