Ranking Member on Parliament's Mines and Energy Committee, John Jinapor is calling for a collaborative effort to resolve the erratic power supply being experienced in the country.

According to him, despite the constant denial by the government and its communicators that the erratic power supply was not a “dumsor”, a report by Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), indicates that there is a fuel problem.

In an earlier report sighted by JoyNews, GRIDCo had attributed the power crisis to fuel shortage and maintenance issues.

The report also demanded that fuel be made available to the Aksa Power Station and Kakatiya Thermal Power Station (KTPP) to serve as a strategic stock in the absence of Gas to ensure a reliable electricity supply.

Commenting on this report on Joy FM’s Top Story on April 3, Mr Jinapor recalled the public relations gimmicks the government had played concerning the power crisis.

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“What beats my imagination is how the government and its communicators could think that they can take all of us on that ride.

"It really beat my imagination that [with] 30 million Ghanaians you think that you can just take us on this ride with this flimsy excuse of so-called transformer overload.

“When transformers are not overloaded, it means that there is too much supply of power. So, why are we now curtailing the supply of power to our neighbouring countries?

“Now the official document from GRIDCo on their letterhead authenticated document establishes that we have been shedding load because of fuel challenges.

“All this while when we said there was a fuel problem people said we did not know what we were talking about. We were naysayers, why do we wish bad for this country? Why are we calling for a load-shedding timetable? They knew because there is a weekly report from GRIDCo to the Minister and all the weekly reports I see confirm that there is a deficit in generation primarily because of fuel challenges,” he said.

The Yapei Kusawgu MP stressed that now the truth is out to the public, it is time all stakeholders in the Energy sector evaluate the situation and come up with lasting solutions to resolve the power crisis before matters get out of hand.

“What we need is to find a way as a country collectively to procure adequate fuel for the plant. We don’t have definite fuel, the gas supply is erratic, and Nigeria is unreliable. So, what we have to do is to deal with the fuel issue. If we solve the fuel challenge we won’t have load-shedding. That is the bottom line.

“Once we solve the fuel issue we are done. I think that all of us, collectively, irrespective of our political persuasion we should help to find solutions towards getting fuel,” he added.