Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah, Trade Minister has maintained that Ghana has better power supply than most of its counterparts in the West African Sub-region, charging Ghanaians to be appreciative of the improvements government has made so far.

The trade minister cited the country’s connectivity of close to 80% as one of the proofs that the country is not in such a bad state in terms of energy supply.

Dr. Spio-Gabrah added that, “The water system and electricity works a lot better in Ghana than in many parts of Africa, and indeed to our surprise, Ghana is actually the country with the highest penetration of power per population in the whole of sub-Sahara Africa.”

Currently, the country is contending with a generation shortfall of about 500MW owing to a disruption in the production of gas from the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah after the vessel developed a fault about a month ago.

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Dr. Spio-Garbrah however thinks Ghana’s situation is not the worst in the sub-region. “In fact, about 10 African countries put together, the power they have is less thanGhana. If you add the power available to Burkina Faso, Mali, guinea, Sierra Leon, Liberia, Benin, Togo etc, Ghana has more power than them. In countries like Sierra Leon and Liberia, they have 50 Megawatts, the whole country 100 Megawatts. We are dealing with 3,000 Megawatts and we are complaining”, he said.