The discrimination by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the distribution of power is becoming too much.
Ghanaians have all accepted the fact that we have a crisis on our hands, a crisis that was not caused by the current leaders, but the burden now lies on them to find a lasting solution to it.
Government has made so much investment in the sector than any other sector of the economy, yet the relief that Ghanaians seek, seems far from coming.
Until a lasting solution is found, the little that we are able to generate must be equitably distributed. The process should be fair, so that every households and companies, can plan depending on how many times, they will get light in a week.
Not too long ago, the Minister of Power, set up a three-member committee, to come out with a load-shedding time-table. The time-table was published and for a period was adhered to. The time-table unfortunately has been thrown out of the window and is no longer, being used.
When the Presidency announced that, some heads of public institutions were going to be reshuffled, we expected that the first institutions to be affected will be that of the ECG, the Volta River Authority (VRA) and GRIDCO.
We do not understand why, we should continue to pay people for no work done. There are a lot of people, well qualified and positioned to effect a change in the power sector, all the President needs to do is to look outside the technocrats that we have in these institutions.
These people have been around for so long and have applied all the solutions they know, but the results have always been the same, it is time to try something new and it doesn’t look like they are in the position to be part of that new change.
We concede that, some areas because of the state installations cannot go off, but they are many areas where such national assets cannot be found, yet get more of the electricity than other places.
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