A lawyer and a communications team member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Beatrice Annan, says no significant strides has been added to Ghana’s Power Generation mix since 1992 by the New Patriotic Party.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, Beatrice Annan emphasized on the massive contribution by the National Democratic Congress, especially, the John Mahama administration in tackling power crisis in the country.
“From 1992 to 2024, the NPP has not added any significant megawatt to our generation mix. Anytime Ghana has had to make giant strides, you move from Nkrumah and you come to the NDC 1, Jerry John Rawlings and you come to NDC 2, the NPP has not added any significant generation power”.
Beatrice Annan posited that the NPP should admit it is oblivious to facts in the energy sector.
“Maybe, the NPP should admit that they don’t really understand the energy sector. Recently, when we met people in the upstream sector, their concern is that, the people there don’t know and yet they do not even want to listen to them as industry players. For the first time, you see the banter between Electricity Company of Ghana and Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, they don’t know yet they will not humble themselves to ask industry players. The most dangerous thing is he who knows not and knows not that he knows not is where we are,” she said.
Furthermore, the NDC Communicator stated that the relocation and renaming of the Ameri Power Plant is to score cheap political point.
Background
The AMERI power plant was moved to Kumasi as part of efforts to stabilize the national power grid and address recurring power cuts last week. The plant has been renamed and commissioned as the Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant(K1TPP)
In 2015, as part of ‘desperate’ plans to resolve the power crisis at the time, the NDC government procured the AMERI thermal power plant on a build own, operate and transfer (BOOT) contract at $510 million. The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) lashed out at the Government for accepting a bad deal, promising to renegotiate it if they won power. Now in power, they have not lived up to expectation.
By: Vanessa Edotom Boateng | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
