The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has joined critics of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, who said he could fix Ghana’s power crisis in just 3 months.
[contextly_sidebar id=”OnHs3FNFjMm5j2Plc9AHrB7UgPxyGRsW”]The Reverend Minister’s comments drew widespread criticism especially from members of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), who accused him of being a member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to Kwesi Pratt Jnr. Rev. Martey’s statement shows he is totally clueless about the seriousness of the energy crisis.
“If you have anybody who is claiming publicly that he can resolve the problem in three months, it means he has no understanding of the problem. So if you employ somebody like Rev. Martey as your Energy Minister, then we will be in dumsor dumsor probably forever because he has no clue what the problem is,” Pratt Jnr remarked.
Ghana has been saddled with energy challenges for about 3 years and the situation has aggravated, leading to power rationing exercises being undertaken by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
The President in a bid to solve the crisis appointed a Power Minister to solely deal with Ghana’s power problems while emergencies measures are being put in place to bring relief to Ghanaians.
Nonetheless, the outspoken Rev. Professor Martey last week chastised the Mahama government for woefully failing to solve the problem years after the matter reared its head.
He mentioned that if he were the President of Ghana, he would have resolved the crisis within a period of three months.
“Ghana is not a big country for you to take one year to solve this problem. Four months you can solve it – at most six months. Last I was telling my people that if I were in charge within three months I’ll solve the problem,” he said.
Despite the backlash he received from sections of the public following his remarks, there were some suggestions that he should be made the Power Minister to prove his worth.
But speaking on Radio Gold on Saturday, Pratt Jnr vehemently disagreed with such suggestions, indicating that “if the government wants to fall, it should employ people like Rev. Martey as Ministers and it will collapse very, very quickly and indeed, Rev. Martey’s wishes will be fulfilled much faster if people like him are made Ministers in this country.”
He was of the view that Rev Martey is “certainly not a plus for the Mahama administration.”
Pratt Jnr expressed utter shock at the level of insults the leader of the Presby Church could hurl at the President of his country.
He said: “The level of insults…I have to be careful not to sound like him because I don’t want to be like him. He is not my model in anyway but the level of depravity, the level of insults and so on and the poverty of analysis clearly shows that Rev Martey cannot be a Minister.”
He begged President John Mahama “never to make the mistake of employing somebody like Rev Martey as Minister. In any case, giving the complication of the energy crisis, it’s not a small matter – it’s a very complicated matter.”
Kwesi Pratt Jnr who is also a member of the Socialist Forum on the same platform was very certain that the Presby Moderator was just playing to the gallery therefore, “the energy resources of a country should not be left in the hands of those who will play to the gallery.”
He wondered how some Ghanaians will consider Rev. Martey as a man who speaks for God saying, “I’m sure some people in this country probably believe that Rev Martey and so on are men of God and that they speak for God. How they come to that conclusion, I don’t know but I will be very surprised if God will use the kind of intemperate language that Rev. Martey uses.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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