Audio By Carbonatix
The Minister of Energy, Mr Joseph Adda, has dared Ghanaians to give the ruling New Patriotic Party 19 more years in power to experience sound energy and economic policies.
Speaking to Joy News to disclose the arrival of an additional power generating plant, Mr Adda was of the view that but for the prudent policies of the government it would have been difficult to acquire most of the emergency plants.
“Ghanaians should appreciate the fact that many countries…are going through load shedding. The problem is global…God willing long before we get to the election year we would see a lot more power than perhaps we need in this country. If Ghanaians really want to test, give the NPP 19 years like they gave P/NDC 19 years and they will see the difference,” he promised.
The power plant is to augment the energy supply in the country.
Mr Adda told Joy News the 20 Megawatts plant arrived in the country last week. It will bring the total amount of power added to the national grid since the energy crisis started in August last year to 90 megawatts.
But it falls short of the 136 megawatts government promised in May to immediately ease the energy shortfall.
Mr. Adda remained confident that the measures taken by government so far should end the crisis by the September 2007 deadline.
“Government has made the funds available and the engineers are working hard to install the machines, test and commission them…I want to assure all Ghanaians that government is very concerned and fully committed but it takes time,” he said.
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
Tags:
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
Latest Stories
-
Counting performances of the Black Stars – at the doom stage?
55 seconds -
When The Gospel boarded a trotro
4 minutes -
Gender Ministry, IOM build stakeholders’ capacity to combat human trafficking in tourism and sports
5 minutes -
Health Ministry declares Yellow Fever outbreak in Upper West Region
11 minutes -
CRS, LDS hand over 6 renovated NAS facilities to strengthen emergency response
13 minutes -
Labour Minister banks on dialogue to end teachers’ strike, rules out alternative measures
19 minutes -
Transport operators slam gov’t; vow to defy suspension of preaching and hawking restrictions
19 minutes -
Domestic abuse is about power and control, not ordinary relationship conflict – ARK Foundation
22 minutes -
Keep your windows open or risk lung cancer – GAEC warns over deadly radon gas
28 minutes -
‘I was beaten, threatened with death, and was told to stay’ – Abuse survivor recounts ordeal in marriage
1 hour -
Ato Forson has performed wonders with common fund releases – Northern Regional Minister
1 hour -
Zelensky accuses US of inaction as Russian strikes kill over 70 in two days
1 hour -
Bipartisan majority of Americans blame Trump policies for rising costs, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
1 hour -
New Trump rules will make it harder for farmers to access US funds for energy projects
2 hours -
John Jinapor warns energy sector board chairs, CEOs against toxic working relationships
2 hours