Ghana President blames Nigeria for Ghana’s current electricity outage

The president of Ghana, John Mahama yesterday explained that the intermittent power outage experienced in his country was as a result of the delays in taking delivery of crude oil from Nigeria to power Ghana’s thermal plant.

Mahama, who spoke while delivering the Eid-el-Fitr speech at a ceremony, observed that Ghana has recently been experiencing a massive drop in electricity generation which has caused individuals and companies to complain.

With the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta region and militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, blowing up oil facilities and causing disruption in oil production, Nigeria’s oil production has been destabilised.

Mahama stressed that the activities of militants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region blowing up oil installations and causing disruption in oil production is why Ghana’s electricity supply has taken a dip.

His words, “We have recently suffered some generational problems. I held a stakeholders’ meeting with all those involved in the power sector. Because of sabotage in Nigeria on the terminals, crude oil that we ordered last month has not arrived; and so, it has created some generational problem for us.”

The Ghanaian President, however, assured his people that things will be normalised, stressing that, “We are taking steps every day to ensure that Ghana has security when it comes to power.”