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Central Regional Communications Director for the NDC, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has disclosed his own findings and explained why the country is facing erratic power supply. According to him, he has mathematically worked the equation and uncovered his own findings which he believes has contributed most to the less power supply in the country. He attributed the power crisis to the limited electrical supply of power which couldn�t meet the increase in demand. Bernard Allotey Jacobs took the controversy surrounding the erratic power supply to another level, when he said that the materialization of good living in the country could be linked to the power crisis in Ghana. He observed that the demand for power has been a major problem in the country in recent times because the economy has created the needed condition for people to build their own houses. �The brain behind the crisis is that there has been a major improvement in individual lives and this has paved way for a lot of new buildings to sprout out in Ghana. It has variable made the demand for power; a major problem,� he said. Speaking on Accra-based Okay FM, Allotey Jacobs refused to link the crisis to sabotage on the part of political opponents who want to create discomfort for the current administration. He described the erratic power supply as perennial problem which had nothing to do with villain plots. He called on the citizenry to have faith in the NDC administration, which according to him has made it,its top priority to curb the problem. �We should just exercise some form of self-control and have the hope that supply of electrical power would soon be stable...we need almost about $200 million to sustain our network system and government institutions, agencies, ministries and departments are owing us huge amount of monies,� he added. As a board member of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Allotey Jacobs revealed that they have already bought equipments to ensure power is stable when works on the generation are completed.