The Bui Power Authority is complying with the Presidential directive to ensure all staff and visitors to government installations wash hands under running water before admission. The Authority also checks temperatures of persons visiting the facility.
A ‘Veronica bucket’ has been placed at the entrance with staff insisting everybody entering the BPA Heights wash their hands under running water.
The Authority had early on issued a Press Release on a news item circulated on Social Media suggesting that there was a case of Coronavirus at the Bui Generating Station. Below is the Press Release:
BUI POWER AUTHORITY HAS NO CORONAVIRUS
Our attention has been drawn to a story in the Tuesday, March 17, 2020 edition of the Vanguard newspaper captioned, “Coronavirus Hits Bui Dam.”
We wish to inform the general public that this is a blatant lie. There is absolutely nothing like that at the Bui Generating Station (BGS) or any of our installations.
Early on Friday, March 13, 2020 some schools and international agencies closed their offices down due to internal policies on communicable diseases. In view of that BPA issued an internal memo signed by me urging staff whose wards attend those schools and staff who had come in close contact with staff of the expatriate organizations, to self-quarantine for two weeks.
This internal memo was subsequently found to have been leaked on Social Media platforms. This led to rendering personal apologies to one of the schools who had come to establish that their school had no confirmed cases though our memo did not portray so. An amicable solution had been found to that misunderstanding and the matter brought to a closure.
We are therefore surprised that Vanguard newspaper relied on this internal memo to conclude that there was coronavirus at the “Bui Dam” (Bui Generating Station). It is absolutely untrue and we have asked the newspaper to render an apology and retract the story.
We take this opportunity to assure the general public that we are following all the protocols necessary to ensure safety of the dam, health of our staff and those we come in contact with. These protocols, as directed by the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the World Health Organization, are being followed at the dam site at Bui, Head Office in Accra and all other locations.
March 17, 2020
