Professor Stephen Adei, a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has urged the ruling government to put measures in place to curb the recent prevalent power outage in the country.
Speaking in an interview on Accra-based TV3, which was monitored by 1Family Radio, the former rector claimed that although the current erratic power supply is not bad compared to Mahama’s era, things can escalate if care is not taken.
“It’s quite unfortunate. Let us be very mindful; it is not as bad as the dumsor days, but if we don’t take care, it can only get worse,’’ he said.
The professor provided the government with some solutions he thought would be helpful in curbing the current load shedding.
He advocated that the government should scrap the import duties on solar panels. He believed that the less expensive the solar panels, the more Ghanaians would be able to generate their own electricity during load shedding.
“So the first thing is to look at if there are bottlenecks that are not allowing us to use the existing capacity to the fullest, which must be addressed. But in the long run, we must have a national strategic agenda.’’
“You can go solar; immediately, the government should allow all solar panels and anything to do with them to be imported, because in the end, the country and the government will win.’’
He added, “We must have a strategy to make sure that we have a long-term solution, and the efficiency of the ECG has to improve.’’
Source: 1FamilyRadio