AFCON NOT OUR PRIORITY-DPTY POWER MIN.

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Deputy Minister of Power, John Abu Jinapor speaking to the media
The Deputy Minister of Power, John Abdulai Jinapor, has emphasized the fact that stable power supply for the purposes of the upcoming African Cup of Nations, AFCON, is not the priority of the government for now. 

What should be the primary concern of every well meaning Ghanaian must be how energy would be readily available for the production sector to boost the national economy. 

Mr. Jinapor said this while addressing the media in Kumasi after inspecting the progress of work on the construction of a twin warehouse for the Electricity Company of Ghana. 

The project, which started in 2013, has a number of facilities such as Close Circuit Cameras, an insurance package among others to the level of risk associated with the materials to be kept there. 

A side view of the twin warehouse of the ECG
Already the superstructure of the twin ware house has been completed with the fittings also underway to ensure their completion for use. 

Mr. Jinapor said government’s immediate plan is to generate the needed power to stabilize electricity supply that will engender productivity. 

It is for this reason that the sector Minister is working around the clock to procure a 350 megawatt power barge to augment the available power for the nation.
 
It will be recalled that a few weeks ago, a large quantity of  prepaid electric metres procured by the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, for 

distribution in parts of the Ashanti region got totally burnt with the actual cause of the   wildfire still being a mystery yet to be unraveled. 

The metres, valued at about two million Ghana Cedis, had been kept in a functional private ware house at Oduom, a suburb of Kumasi, contrary to speculation that the properties were in an abandoned warehouse. 

It is the opinion of many people that the risk associated with the newly procured electric metres would have been significantly reduced if the ECG had its own warehouse to keep them. 

It is to forestall any such future incidence that the company started constructing its own wares houses at Boadi, also a suburb of Kumasi where all operational materials logistics such as electricity metres, poles and transformers of the ECG meant for both the Ashanti East and Ashanti West regions.
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