Lack of dynamism from GRIDCo caused power cuts – Mutawakilu LISTEN
MAR 8, 2021
A former Ranking Member on Parliament’s select committee on Mines and Energy, Adam Mutawakilu, says the Ghana Grid Company s (GRIDCo) inability to adjust its system in response to power supply challenges in the Western Region led to Sunday s nationwide power cuts.
In an interview with
Citi Business News, Mr. Mutawakilu highlighted the need for a dynamic system to effectively respond to such challenges, as well as the need for a constant supply of fuel to emergency plants to enable them supply power in times of such challenges.
“Whenever there is this fault in generation, there is the need for other generating plants to come on board. When this thing happened, there was the need to quickly cut off some areas so that the load balance will be there,” he explained.
Despite earlier opposition to the nomination of Hawa Koomson as Minister for Fisheries and Aqua Culture, the Ghana Tuna Association says it respects Parliament 39;s decision to approve her nomination.
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The Registrar General, Jemima Oware, has disclosed that she is waiting for more winding down orders from the court assigned to handling the liquidation cases for fund management, before making more payment to customers whose funds have been locked-up in the various defunct fund management companies.
As government works to procure some 17 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of June 2021, it has been urged to prioritize investing in systems that will guarantee the development of different vaccines in Ghana in the medium to long term.
Per the latest updates from the Ghana Health Service, which is up to February 10, 2021, active cases had risen to 8,216, whereas the number of deaths had also risen to 533, creating some anxiety about the country’s fight against the pandemic.
But all things being equal, a total of 17.6 million vaccine doses should be procured for the Ghanaian people by the end of June, according to President Akufo-Addo.