Governance Expert, Professor Baffour Agyemang-Duah says the government's silence on the power crisis demonstrates a lack of leadership.

According to him, good governance requires that when citizens complain about certain challenges, the government responds to their plight by updating them on measures being adopted to address it.

However, despite the erratic power supply and constant complaints by citizens, the government has remained silent on the issue.

Speaking on the Midday News on JoyFM on April 23, he said “I think the silence of the President is quite deafening on this matter. An aspect of good governance certainly is the responsiveness of government when citizens express concern about physical issues as you are quoting but so far, I think we are lacking leadership on this crisis."

He explained that before the power outages became rampant, players in the energy sector had disagreements that could have been resolved behind closed doors if there had been proactive leaders.

“You know the feud between GRIDCo, ECG, PURC, and others and this is the time we would have expected the President to take charge. Just as he did successfully during the COVID era when he was able to brief us periodically on the situation. This current crisis is almost nationwide and then there is huge public concern expressed through many media, especially on social media.

“People are very frustrated and I think this is an occasion for the President to be seen as being in charge and I wish the president could assemble those players in the Energy sector and give them marching orders and assure the nation that serious people are on their way to rectify the situation.

"So far, I think we haven’t seen much transparency on this matter. We haven’t seen a real concern expressed by the government, the President as well on this matter, and therefore the whole nation seems to be just bemoaning, lamenting the crisis without any serious response from government,” he said.

Responding to calls for the Energy Minister's resignation, Prof Agyemang-Duah said that the President is ultimately responsible for anything that goes wrong under his tenure.

Therefore, the President should be able to determine who is competent enough to handle respective ministries, especially because the National Democratic Congress lost and went into opposition due to their failure to promptly resolve the energy sector crisis.