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Benjamin Siama

Ghanaian personality featured as a guest on JoyNews Weekend One, Multimedia Ghana's weekend news bulletin podcast.

Sep 6, 2026

44:48
Now to start with, ECG attributes the outages in rising transformer failures, but isn't this ultimately a planning and maintenance issue rather than an unexpected technical problem? What does this say about asset management within the system?
45:06
What it simply says is that ECG over the years has poorly managed its assets.
45:13
It has poorly kept data on the assets.
45:16
And for that matter, it has become a failure in planning to mitigate some of these challenges we are experiencing today.
45:24
So it is not because they know the challenge to them for that matter, they make pronouncement on them.
45:31
It is a failure on their part historically to ensure that they plan adequately to mitigate or adapt to this recent scenario.
45:40
For example, when I was listening to the current MD, you could realize that ECG continues to rely on historical data in terms of their planning.
48:04
Is the problem primarily operational efficiency, funding gaps or a deeper structural issue within the power distribution sector?

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