GhanaWeb: Gas Supply: Ghana accuses Nigeria of breach of contract
Nigeria has been accused of disrespecting its contractual agreement to supply Ghana with gas, thus worsening Ghana’s load shedding exercise, the Energy Ministry has said.
Since the inception of the West African Gas Pipeline Project, Nigeria, which is responsible for supplying Ghana, Togo and Benin with natural gas has proven to be unreliable, Communications Consultant at the Energy Ministry, Edward Bawa told Joy News.
Nigeria was supposed to send 123 million cubic feet of gas to Ghana but it is only able to supply around 49 cubic feet of gas. “This is woefully inadequate to enable us to power our generating plants,” he remarked.
The penalty, for the entire contractual period, if Nigeria fails to meet the supply requirement is 20 million dollars, an amount Mr. Bawa said was not punitive enough.
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