"Blame this PDS saga on this NPP government" –John Jinapor.

After a statement by the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah stating the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Finance and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Ltd. has suspended the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited with immediate effect.

He said, the decision follows the detection of fundamental and material breaches of PDS’ obligation in the provision of Payment Securities (Demand Guarantees) for the transaction which have been discovered upon further due diligence. The Demand Guarantees were key prerequisites for the lease of assets on 1st March 2019 to secure the assets that were transferred to the concessionaire. The government is conducting a full enquiry into the matter, and the outcome will inform the next course of action”.

He added: “Government has taken steps to ensure distribution, billing and payment services continue uninterrupted. The general public and customers are assured that this development will not interfere with the distribution of electricity services to customers”

John Jinapor, a former Deputy Minister of Energy and Petroleum, has advised the government of Ghana to terminate the contract with the Power Distribution Service (PDS) after the bold step taken by the president to suspend its operations.

Speaking on Adom FM’s Burning Issues on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, Mr. Jinapor revealed that he suspects some government officials want to acquire shares from the ECG following the suspension of the concession agreement with the Power Distribution Services (PDS).

The Yapei-Kusawgu Legislator also called for the termination of the contract due to an element of “fraud” detected in the contract as revealed by Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu.

Mr. Jinapor blamed the government for causing all of this issues in the energy sector, he said;

“I said from the beginning it was not going to help us. They lacked the financial capacity to take over and the government is lying to us, we [NDC] called for a probe into the guarantee to authenticate it before the concession begins but they [NPP] changed it by asking them to start before presenting the guarantee”.

He further added that, the PDS were incompetence of taking over the power distribution from ECG, and accused them of performing so poorly in the last 5 months.

Meanwhile, Executive Director of Kumasi Institute of Technology, Energy and Environment (KITE), Ishmael Agyekumhene speaking on the same show warned against hasty termination of the contract to avoid a possible judgement debt.

He also advised against quick judgement since investigations are ongoing and could exonerate PDS.

Mr Agyekumhene, however, said Ghanaians “should be glad for the early days' mishaps” to rectify all errors in the concession that would have been gruesome in future.