{"id":668480,"date":"2019-07-31T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div>\n            <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><figure><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Donkor-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kwabena Donkor\"\/><figcaption "},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:23:53","slug":"no-ghanaian-company-has-experience-in-power-distribution-kwabena-donkor-on-pds-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/31\/no-ghanaian-company-has-experience-in-power-distribution-kwabena-donkor-on-pds-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ghanaian company has experience in power distribution \u2013 Kwabena Donkor on PDS debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Donkor-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kwabena Donkor\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Kwabena Donkor, former Power Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor feels vindicated by the struggles of the Akufo-Addo administration in handling the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the suspension of the\u00a0concession agreement with\u00a0Power Distribution Services (PDS) is due to the politicisation of the power sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORY: Breaking news: Gov\u2019t suspends PDS contract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government on Tuesday July 30, 2019 said it is bringing back the Electricity Company of Ghana to be in full control of power distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, explained that the decision was taken after the government detected \u201cfundamental and material breaches of PDS\u2019s obligation in the provision of Payment Securities (Demand Guarantees) for the transaction which have\u00a0been discovered upon further due diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, Dr Donkor on Adom FM\u2019s morning show, <strong>Dwaso Nsem<\/strong> programme, Wednesday blamed the government for not doing due diligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: N\/R: Robbers attack police at checkpoint, kill one and steal their weapons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow would you give such a huge State asset to a company without condition precedence? This is very surprising,\u201d he bemoaned.<\/p>\n<p>The former Power Minister revealed that the decision to give 51% of shares to Ghana and 49% to a foreign company was a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur agreement was 20% local content and 80% foreign but the New Patriotic Party came to change it and cooked the contract for PDS; now see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: NAM1 bail condition not favourable \u2013 Menzgold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Donkor said if the Akufo-Addo government had continued their agreement, it would have saved itself from the embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Ghanaian Company has experience in power distribution. If foreigners, who have the experience, had been given the contract, the local people would have understudied them to take over later,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Ghana | Adomonline.com | Adwoa Gyasiwaa Agyeman<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kwabena Donkor, former Power Minister Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor feels vindicated by the struggles of the Akufo-Addo administration in handling the power sector. According to him, the suspension of the\u00a0concession agreement with\u00a0Power Distribution Services (PDS) is due to the politicisation of the power sector. RELATED STORY: Breaking news: Gov\u2019t suspends PDS contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Ghanaian company has experience in power distribution \u2013 Kwabena Donkor on PDS debacle - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/31\/no-ghanaian-company-has-experience-in-power-distribution-kwabena-donkor-on-pds-debacle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Ghanaian company has experience in power distribution \u2013 Kwabena Donkor on PDS debacle - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Dr Kwabena Donkor, former Power Minister Former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor feels vindicated by the struggles of the Akufo-Addo administration in handling the power sector. 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