The country is facing erratic power supply due to sabotage in Nigeria as far as the supply of crude oil is concerned, says President John Mahama.
Speaking at a prayer ceremony at the Black Stars Square on the occasion of the Eid ul-Fitr celebration in Accra Wednesday July 6, he said "We have recently suffered some generational problems. Because of sabotage in Nigeria on the terminals, crude oil we ordered from Nigeria has not arrived and so it has created some generational problems for us”.
There is a resurgence of power outages, popularly known as dumsor in some parts of the capital for some weeks now but President Mahama has assured the situation will ‘normalise’ soon. As a result government is not going to declare a load-shedding programme.
“I have asked the Bulk Oil Storage [and Transportation] Company to start storing at least one month of light crude oil supplied to Ghana so that in the event anything happens at the supply end in Nigeria, we are not affected the way we are currently affected. And, so, I will crave your indulgence and urge all of you to understand. We are not declaring load shedding, I believe things will be normalised. But we are taking steps every day to ensure that Ghana has security when it comes to power.”
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