{"id":246436,"date":"2016-09-07T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246436"},"modified":"2016-09-07T12:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:49:18","slug":"1-house-1-meter-sensible-than-nana-addos-promises-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/1-house-1-meter-sensible-than-nana-addos-promises-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"1-house; 1-meter more \u2018sensible\u2019 than Nana Addo’s promises – Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Central Regional Minister, Kweku Ricketts Hagan, has defended a promise made by President John Dramani Mahama\u00a0to provide each household in the Abura \u00a0community in Cape Coast one\u00a0electricity meter<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

According to the Minister, such promise is more \u201csensible\u201d and \u201crealistic\u201d than those promised by flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n

President John Mahama at a rally at Abura on Tuesday; directed the release of 1,500 meters to residents in the area to ensure that each household has a meter.<\/p>\n

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[contextly_sidebar id=”1rMsUaZugx50wpl8WdQwakkcJJXbBkDt”]This he said will end the current situation where multiple households share a meter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Abura, I know your major concern is about electricity, a lot of you do not have meters. In most of the houses, the meters are shared. So I\u2019ve asked that 1500 meters should be made available to you so that each\u00a0house will have one meter,\u201d Mahama added.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0the promise\u00a0has provoked comments suggesting that the President may be towing the same line as the NPP, who have so far promised to build one dam in each village in the three regions of the North, and also provide one million dollars per constituency, as well as the one district, one factory policy if voted into power.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Ricketts Hagan justified the President\u2019s promise.<\/p>\n

He argued that \u201cHow can the president be wrong when people have put a request before him? The President didn\u2019t go to Abura to tell\u00a0them that I\u2019m coming to give you meters; it is the people who requested for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that the president has the powers to make the promise possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he is the one going to do it directly or not, at least the President has the powers to direct the appropriate authorities to respond to the\u00a0very urgent request. Doesn\u2019t one house one meter sound a bit more sensible than one village one dam or all the other one this one that?. And that is something that is realistic.”<\/p>\n

“We know that when you build a house, you need a meter. You have cases where people are sharing meters in between houses, I think that is much more realistic and sensible thing to say instead of the one this one that. I don\u2019t think the president is copying anyone. If you have one house you need one meter. We are yet to see whether we should have one dam in every village. So put the two side by side and look at which is more realistic,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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