Ghana: electricity crisis worsens; Ghana has been rationing electricity since August last year, and the situation is getting worse. In mid-May, the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) called a press conference in Accra to make proposals to the government. Here are excerpts.

New African › Nbr. 2007, January 2007

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Ghana: electricity crisis worsens; Ghana has been rationing electricity since August last year, and the situation is getting worse. In mid-May, the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) called a press conference in Accra to make proposals to the government. Here are excerpts.

Ever since President John Kufuor's NPP government, without any notice to the people of Ghana, embarked on a load shedding exercise on 27 August 2006, the electricity situation in the country, instead of improving, has grown from bad to worse.

From a load shedding schedule of 12 hours light-off every five days, we have retrogressed to a 12-hour light-off every other day and are currently being subje...

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