Power outages: Energy Ministry is working, very soon it will be over – Bawumia

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured Ghanaians that the Ministry of Energy is working to resolve the power outages.

He says that very soon, the challenges will be over.

“I know that there are challenges, we are going to work on them. Currently, we have issues power, the assurance from the Minister for Energy is that those power challenges will very soon be a thing of the past, they are working at it,” he said in a breakfast meeting with NPP regional leaders ahead of his start of the campaign activities, on Monday, April 29.

Dr Bawumia further touted the achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration.

For the first time in the history of Ghana, he said, consumers of electricity can sit in the comfort of their homes or wherever they find themselves and buy electric power without having to join any line at the offices of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

This, he said, is among the list of innovative measures introduced by the Akufo-Addo administration.

“For the first time in our history, people can buy electricity units on their mobile phones, we take it for granted now but a few years ago you had to go and queue at the ECG payment center to buy electricity,” Dr Bawumia said in a breakfast meeting with NPP regional leaders ahead of his start of the campaign activities, on Monday, April 29

He further indicated that the government has built more courts for the judiciary than any other government did.

Also, he said, the government has provided cars and equipment to the Ghana Armed Forces and the Police more than any government.

“Our government has implemented many transformational policies. for the first time in our history as a country, Ghana has successfully issued a digital national ID card which has provided a unique identity for all Ghanains.

“For the first time in our history, Ghana has implemented Mobile Money interoperability between the Mobile Money accounts of telcos and the bank accounts of the banks. Ghana is the first country in the whole of Africa to have done this Mobile Money Inyterorpablity between bank accounts and MoMo accounts.

This has made Ghana the fastest-growing mobile money market in Africa. In fact, when we came into office MoMo transactions in Ghana were just 78 cedis per year. Last year they reached GHS1.9 trillion cedis, it tells you what we have done,” he said.