{"id":137867,"date":"2024-01-11T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/11\/pay-energy-sector-debt-to-keep-our-lights-on-joyce-bawah-tells-government\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:22:43","slug":"pay-energy-sector-debt-to-keep-our-lights-on-joyce-bawah-tells-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/11\/pay-energy-sector-debt-to-keep-our-lights-on-joyce-bawah-tells-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay energy sector debt to keep our lights on \u2013 Joyce Bawah tells government \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">An aide to the former President of Ghana,\u00a0John Dramani Mahama,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myinfo.com.gh\/2023\/12\/akufo-addo-demonized-mahama-but-doing-worse-joyce-bawah-mogtari\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"795205\">Joyce Bawah Mogtari\u00a0has urged the government to look for money and pay energy sector debts to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n<p>She says what the country is currently experiencing is a financial issue, and therefore the government should ensure that it is addressed.<\/p>\n<p>To her, the president of Ghana\u2019s comments on the development and its linkage to his predecessor were loose and unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Mogtari made this known in a post she shared via her X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 we will leave #Dumsor \u2026. Surely Nana Addo\/Bawumia are currently holding the switch to the power generation plant and switching them off at our expense! Such a shame really to have a president speaking so loosely about a development that had absolutely nothing to do with his predecessor\u2026. Well now we have excess power so please buy the diesel or better yet pay off the energy sector debts and keep our lights on!\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2026 we will leave <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dumsor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dumsor<\/a> \u2026. Surely Nana Addo \/Bawumia are currently holding the switch to the power generation plant and switching them off at our expense! Such a shame really to have a president speaking so loosely about a development that had absolutely nothing to do with his\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joyce Bawah Mogtari (@joyce_bawah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joyce_bawah\/status\/1745200846156018043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aide to the former President of Ghana,\u00a0John Dramani Mahama,\u00a0Joyce Bawah Mogtari\u00a0has urged the government to look for money and pay energy sector debts to keep the lights on. She says what the country is currently experiencing is a financial issue, and therefore the government should ensure that it is addressed. 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