We can’t solve dumsor through budget – Finance Ministry

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kobby 8 years ago

We want the new investor to bring on board at least 1000megawatts generation.Not just new technology for fixing distribution and illegal connection losses. We want tangible investment not wishy washy investment.

We want the new investor to bring on board at least 1000megawatts generation.Not just new technology for fixing distribution and illegal connection losses. We want tangible investment not wishy washy investment.
Neutral Zone 8 years ago

Ghana, u want n want n dictate terms too. Why don't u invest Mr. Kobby, n after that deals with the corruption.

Ghana, u want n want n dictate terms too. Why don't u invest Mr. Kobby, n after that deals with the corruption.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

LOOKING AT THE DESTRUCTION NDC HAS CAUSED TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY IN THE PAST 6 YEARS, ANY TALK ABOUT THIS INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION WINNING THE 2016 GENERAL ELECTIONS, WOULD BE DEEMED AS A BIG INSULT ON THE INTELL ...
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LOOKING AT THE DESTRUCTION NDC HAS CAUSED TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY IN THE PAST 6 YEARS, ANY TALK ABOUT THIS INCOMPETENT AND CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION WINNING THE 2016 GENERAL ELECTIONS, WOULD BE DEEMED AS A BIG INSULT ON THE INTELLIGENCE OF ALL GHANAIANS!!!!!!! INSTEAD OF NDC TALKING ABOUT WINNING THE 2016 ELECTIONS, THEY MUST RATHER RENDER THEIR UNRESERVED AND SINCERE APOLOGIES TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GHANA, FOR THE DAMAGE CAUSED. NDC ARE NOT MANAGERS, THEY ARE DAMAGERS!!!!!!!!
Dessie 8 years ago

Such s low intelligence assertion

Such s low intelligence assertion
Douglas. Bristol-UK`° 8 years ago

not even ugly Akufo Addo can handle this for now. dumsor has improved very well

not even ugly Akufo Addo can handle this for now. dumsor has improved very well
Neutral Zone 8 years ago

Guessing can see the lights from ur station. Good for u.

Guessing can see the lights from ur station. Good for u.
KWAA 8 years ago

I have never seen such an incompetent regime like this government before.If Government thinks their expenditure is high,why don't they find ways to reduce it,but rather keep on selling our assets?How can a Country like Ghana ...
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I have never seen such an incompetent regime like this government before.If Government thinks their expenditure is high,why don't they find ways to reduce it,but rather keep on selling our assets?How can a Country like Ghana keep a government of about 80 Ministers,275MPs not to talk about DECs and their deputies all draining the budget.Even in our households,if things get hard,we try to forgo some facilities which are not so profitable and concentrate on necessary ones.Government members will rather sell our assets,than to forgo their luxury life styl.
Aj 8 years ago

Hmmm dude,you should ask ourselves question patterning the area of the ECG is talking about.1.is the area of distribution, 2.the area of production.3.the area of transmission. well here go,if it's the area of distribution, tr ...
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Hmmm dude,you should ask ourselves question patterning the area of the ECG is talking about.1.is the area of distribution, 2.the area of production.3.the area of transmission. well here go,if it's the area of distribution, transmission, then we need to know sure that if it is this two categories then there's something wrong with us people.
ELINAM 8 years ago

It is easier said than done that the Europeans we want to sell these entities to would inject capital into them but since we gave Ghana Telecom as a "gift" to Vodafon, where's the investment that they injected into it? Before ...
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It is easier said than done that the Europeans we want to sell these entities to would inject capital into them but since we gave Ghana Telecom as a "gift" to Vodafon, where's the investment that they injected into it? Before they came, Ghana Telecom was planning on expanding the line-line (WE NEED THE LINE-LINE FOR BUSINESS & FAXES) but when they came that investment was put on ice and they convinced us that we need to "LEAP FROG". In telecommunication, you can not cut corners and run big business on CELL PHONE.
They looked like they're doing well simply because they were able to retrenched all the hangers on that were political appointees from both parties and took care of over 3000 ghost names of which, both political parties used to fund their political activities with. And with a slim-down and structured pay-roll which they're able to undertake without fear or favor, they look good but are NOT investing because their shareholders in EU who used retirement funds of older Europeans want a better return-700% - to take care of their contributors. Vodafon did NOT have the money they used to bribe Kufour for our GT they used investment banks to raise the money and that money belonged to retirees.

Our problem is we lacked the political will to retrenched the party foot soldiers we have put on the pay rolls of these govt entities and the ghost name we infused in them to cater for party activities. Those who benefit from the ghost names contribute hugely for their parties for influence.
Each party's big guy that they put in charge during their time of power corners a certain amount of ghost names for themselves.
This is a MAFIA collaboration - a secret society - and they know each other and are aware of who got which number of ghost names. NPP/NDC members of these corporations knew themselves.
Farmer 8 years ago

Now here we can already see the outcome. It is always the same ridiculous expectations. Ghana governments have brought ECG down beyond repair, they owe half a billion USD they will/can never pay back, ECG being probably the m ...
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Now here we can already see the outcome. It is always the same ridiculous expectations. Ghana governments have brought ECG down beyond repair, they owe half a billion USD they will/can never pay back, ECG being probably the most corrupt organization in the country etc. And now there is the last resort call for private international investors. For a 20 year concession they are supposed to pour endless good money into an unlimited hole and get bad Cedi back in return... What a joke.
Neutral Zone 8 years ago

A big joke indeed. With their corrupt selves.

A big joke indeed. With their corrupt selves.
Samansaman 8 years ago

Does MAHAMA know of all this before his endless promises of FIXING THE DUMSOR soon Or WAS HE JUST LYING TO GHANAIANS? why should he create a new Energy Minister then if cant fix this problem on time? Look at the way Prof. MAR ...
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Does MAHAMA know of all this before his endless promises of FIXING THE DUMSOR soon Or WAS HE JUST LYING TO GHANAIANS? why should he create a new Energy Minister then if cant fix this problem on time? Look at the way Prof. MARTEY was radicle for voicing out his mind.ITs a big shame to the Lying PRESIDENT.
Obiba rBroke 8 years ago

Your statement indicates that Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo is better than the current president of the nation when it comes to changing the fortune of ghana

Your statement indicates that Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo is better than the current president of the nation when it comes to changing the fortune of ghana
Douglas. Bristol-UK`° 8 years ago

if ugly Akufo Addo is given the nod as prez , which all Ghanaians know its impossible, can not tackle a quarter of the dumsor crises mahama is gradually fixing.

if ugly Akufo Addo is given the nod as prez , which all Ghanaians know its impossible, can not tackle a quarter of the dumsor crises mahama is gradually fixing.
Nana kwesi , west Legon 8 years ago

Too much wee smoking and homosexual activities in Bristol has turned u into a schizophrenic person...go back to rehab ofui...in ur entire miserable life as gay,u will never ever have the chance to clear Nana Addo's Garden,tha ...
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Too much wee smoking and homosexual activities in Bristol has turned u into a schizophrenic person...go back to rehab ofui...in ur entire miserable life as gay,u will never ever have the chance to clear Nana Addo's Garden,thab having the opportunity of calling him ur dad..ofui
Nana yaw 8 years ago

So how much are we going to pay for power when this new company takes over? Is it true that we will see an immediate increment in tariff by a 500% margin? If it's true then we must seriously invest in solar system .

So how much are we going to pay for power when this new company takes over? Is it true that we will see an immediate increment in tariff by a 500% margin? If it's true then we must seriously invest in solar system .
Kay 8 years ago

It is only in Ghana that such a government will be given the right to rule through the ballot box.

It is only in Ghana that such a government will be given the right to rule through the ballot box.
SIKAMAN 8 years ago

If ghanaians give 100 years to NDC to rule,they cannot change anything to be better. Their Better Ghana Aganda is fake, joke and propaganda as usual. Mahamah the talkative has no brains to rule a country.

If ghanaians give 100 years to NDC to rule,they cannot change anything to be better. Their Better Ghana Aganda is fake, joke and propaganda as usual. Mahamah the talkative has no brains to rule a country.
Clearance seedorf 8 years ago

Ghanaians, listing oooo and vote wisely come 2016. This gov't cannot help us so let kick them out of power.

Ghanaians, listing oooo and vote wisely come 2016. This gov't cannot help us so let kick them out of power.
ananseba 8 years ago

This government is very incompetent. You can find money to pay dubious judgement debts but none to undertake this very critical problem. Mahama and his team are clueless. They appear to be just muddling through government.
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This government is very incompetent. You can find money to pay dubious judgement debts but none to undertake this very critical problem. Mahama and his team are clueless. They appear to be just muddling through government.
How do they expect businesses to invest in Ghana with dumsor?
Akosua 8 years ago

I am now surely believing that these NDC technocrats don't have any brain like their leader dead goat. Ghana was a middle income country until this silly president came and destroyed everything. WE ARE NOW HIPC !!!!!! Idiots ...
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I am now surely believing that these NDC technocrats don't have any brain like their leader dead goat. Ghana was a middle income country until this silly president came and destroyed everything. WE ARE NOW HIPC !!!!!! Idiots who cannot see cannot read nor hear!!!
alexander Dakson 8 years ago

That is a defeatist statement.What are budget meant for? It is only in this regime that government paying for consumption of power by state institutions is becoming a problem.How does the ministries run in darkness?The Presi ...
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That is a defeatist statement.What are budget meant for? It is only in this regime that government paying for consumption of power by state institutions is becoming a problem.How does the ministries run in darkness?The Presidents statement that i will fix the dumsor is coming from.How does he intend to solve the problem?
Dessie 8 years ago

Put 51% into private sector;enable foreign expectees involve the EC Corp operation

Put 51% into private sector;enable foreign expectees involve the EC Corp operation
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

It may be true dumsor cannot be solved in this 2015/2016 election cycle budget but it can be solved through strategic and a prioritized budget allocations. It starts with both NDC and NPP publishing every document, including ...
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It may be true dumsor cannot be solved in this 2015/2016 election cycle budget but it can be solved through strategic and a prioritized budget allocations. It starts with both NDC and NPP publishing every document, including technical drawings, and anything to do with electricity generation and distribution. It is only when both technical drawings and planning documents have been vetted by all those Ghanaians with expertise the nation can see how budget allocation amounts are appropriate or underfunded to achieve success in a proposed timeline.

Has the NDC and NPP not played patty cakes or musical chairs running Ghana long enough at least since 1992? Did the NDC and NPP presumed smart ones not realize the status of our national electricity production, distribution and consumption patterns? Could either NDC or NPP have had serious plans for economic growth based on industry? I doubt it if Ghana's electricity had been a hodgepodge of silliness by both parties. Let J. J. Rawlings come on the carpet and show how anything done on electricity production and or distribution fit in with a national plan. Let the mighty Kufour provide his scheme and a national plan on electricity? I bet anyone my last cedi that there is none. Buying generators for electricity production does not supplement existing system in a strategic and effective distribution way if it is but for a temporary political fix.

This has been the story of all the CPP haters in Ghana who cannot point to anything achieved in Ghana other than accrued national debt and a few rich people who “earned” their money by stealing, dealing and partaking in corrupt bribery schemes since 1966. We are all finding out it is not easy to govern without foresight, wisdom, ideas, ideals and love of country. The 1966 coup opened the flood gate to charlatans and classroom educated but ignorant people who have not seen an easy way out in life they would not embrace. Guess what y'all? There is nothing free in this world without attached strings. So those who promised us our freedoms to misbehave and sabotage our country have won without delivering a thing; most of those have bailed out and are living elsewhere in the Diaspora while we burn in Ghana.
EZEKIEL 8 years ago

WHERE are the COMPETENT Ghanaians to REALLY NEGOTIATE this ECG business ON BEHALF of Ghana and NOT for personal side benefits ??????????

WHERE are the COMPETENT Ghanaians to REALLY NEGOTIATE this ECG business ON BEHALF of Ghana and NOT for personal side benefits ??????????
FIX DUMSOR 8 years ago

THIRD WORD COUNTRY WILL ALWAY BE A THIRD WORLD COUTRY . WE ARE DUMB .

THIRD WORD COUNTRY WILL ALWAY BE A THIRD WORLD COUTRY . WE ARE DUMB .
joe 8 years ago

Name one thing the NDC government have solved

Name one thing the NDC government have solved
alfa-alfa 8 years ago

It is such a shame that we have totally debased the high expectations of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on the eve of Ghana's independence that "From now on, there is a new African in the world capable of managing his own affairs ...
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It is such a shame that we have totally debased the high expectations of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on the eve of Ghana's independence that "From now on, there is a new African in the world capable of managing his own affairs!"

The situation in Ghana is sordid and morbid and moribundus -a -um!. Nobody has the country at heart. Everybody in a position of authority is bent on indulging in the Mahama administration's open policy of "Create and share". It is a "country broke ooh! country no broke ooh! We are in"!situation.

Just this afternoon, CCTV News announced in its 2 o'clock newscast that Nigeria is preparing to cut off gas supplies to Ghana for non-payment of our bills! Gas shortage on top of the untold suffering as a result of Dumsor?

It is about time the whole country were rolled up like a mat and closed down. It is shameful. It is disgraceful. Everybody is seriously milking the country. Roll up the country and shut Ghana down!!!!!!
ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE LAUNCHER 8 years ago

How much did John Mahama loot in 2 months before the 2012 elections? It was 8.7billion new Ghana cedis. At the time that was about 4.5billion dollars. Now going by the investment amount of $400million dollars for the next 10 ...
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How much did John Mahama loot in 2 months before the 2012 elections? It was 8.7billion new Ghana cedis. At the time that was about 4.5billion dollars. Now going by the investment amount of $400million dollars for the next 10 years, we are looking at exactly the same amount that was looted within just 2 months by this John Dramani Mahama NDC gov't.
So within 2 months an infrastructure investment for 10 years was looted just like that from the national purse.
You don't engage in such irresponsible recklessness, such criminal thievery of the national purse within a record time of 2 months and tell Ghanaians that, dumsor cannot be solved through the budget.
The Mahama NDC gov't should make dumsor a thing of the past as promised, because this level of dumsor is not what they came to meet, and that investment money of 10 years that was stolen within 2 months should be returned to address the self-inflicted dumsor crisis now.
rkt 8 years ago

"An audit exercise conducted by the company found that consumers tapping power illegally owe it a little over GH¢M3.0, which is the equivalent of consuming 5,106,837kwh of power".

"With every 1% of system loss translating ...
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"An audit exercise conducted by the company found that consumers tapping power illegally owe it a little over GH¢M3.0, which is the equivalent of consuming 5,106,837kwh of power".

"With every 1% of system loss translating to GH¢M18.4, it is estimated that the activities of dodgy power consumers cost ECG some GH¢M444.912 last year".
what is de link between these 2 statements? pse come again
B'mark 8 years ago

Seth Tekper , u don't know anything. You an apprentice. U were position there to allow Mahama and his comrades loot and share our resources. When will the fools that follows the criminals comes to their senses. CRIMINALS ...
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Seth Tekper , u don't know anything. You an apprentice. U were position there to allow Mahama and his comrades loot and share our resources. When will the fools that follows the criminals comes to their senses. CRIMINALS in POWER
George Nutsugah 8 years ago

Government should pay its indebtedness to ECG and VRA and the dumsor will end. It was a similar indebtedness of Ibrahim Mahama to Merchant Bank that caused the Merchant Bank to be sold to family & friends of president John Ma ...
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Government should pay its indebtedness to ECG and VRA and the dumsor will end. It was a similar indebtedness of Ibrahim Mahama to Merchant Bank that caused the Merchant Bank to be sold to family & friends of president John Mahama

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