Energy Minister John Abdulai Jinapor says he is determined to leave the energy sector better than he found it.
Speaking on Joy News' PM Express on Wednesday, April 30, he said he is under no illusion about the challenges confronting the sector, especially with frequent power outages frustrating Ghanaians. "If the roads are bad, people are unhappy.
If water doesn't flow, people are unhappy.
But at night, when the lights go out, people get very upset and angry," he said. "That's what I've seen." He admitted that power issues have long plagued the country and insisted that the current administration inherited significant problems from the last government. "In fact, as far back as December, when we were about going into the election, and that was the last month of the NPP administration, they were shedding about 500 megawatts of power," he stated. "And if you look at the whole of 2024, virtually every month there was load shedding." Mr.