The National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has been advised to step aside following their failure to fix the energy crisis which has existed for three continuous years.
[contextly_sidebar id=”iwHWvdrOFpv15CboKE1XPxgGb1hKR8nc”]A former Energy Minister under the Kufuor administration, Kofi Adda on Eyewitness News said: “One of the most brilliant ideas is that the government should hand over…I am being serious!”
He argued that NDC’s inability to resolve the crisis is a “big loss to the people of Ghana, it’s a betrayal of the trust Ghanaians have put in the NDC government – both late Mills and Mahama and that is why I am saying that they ought to step aside and let more competent leaders take over the country. Let us be more serious for once.”
The President together with industry players are frantically working to resolve the three-year-old energy crisis which has intensified in recent weeks.
The business community and the general public have expressed their frustration on the issue but the President is pleading for patience as they work to bring relief to Ghanaians.
According to Mr. Adda, during his time as Minister, in the Kufuor government experienced energy challenges but it was resolved within a year.
He said: “When I was the Energy Minister, the crisis was on up till a year and we got it solved. People were calling for my resignation but I got it all solved by the end of September 2007. And we put all the mechanisms in place, all the programmes in place – short-term, medium-term, long-term…”
He therefore questioned by the NDC has been unable to put an end to the crisis despite all the measures the NPP government put in place before leaving office in 2008.
The former Energy Minister also described President John Mahama’s recent visits to some power plants and the Akosombo dam as a “hoax” and a complete “waste of time”
“Frankly speaking, it is a waste of time, a waste of tax payer’s resources and after six years of being in power, both as a Vice President and as a sitting President, now is the time for you to go to the plants besides the Akosombo…is this the times you are now going there to just look and go away?” he queried.
Mr Adda added that the President’s visit to Akosombo will put more water in dam and “there is nothing he can do about that.”
He continued saying, “I think it’s a waste of time and to me, it just shows that they are playing a game with Ghanaians. It’s a total hoax as far as I am concerned.”
He added that what ought to be done urgently is to find money to buy light crude oil to power the plants.
“They’ve been there for six good years and today, you are asking us to be patient – Patient again for you to lead us into incompetence, mismanagement, corruption? It’s a totally waste of time!”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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