A communication team member of the National Democratic Congress has berated the NPP for its lack of technical know-how in resolving the energy crisis in the country.
“You’ve seen what these people have done with our energy sector. They came to meet so many investments made in the energy sector and because they didn’t envision it they didn’t know how to go about using it. All they know how to do when there is [an] energy crisis is to summon pastors to the Akosombo dam to pray for rains to fall so that we can have electricity. That is their best solution to solving our energy crisis,” Ms Ayisha said on the Big Issue on TV3.
Applauding the NDC presidential candidate for 2024, she said “John Dramani realized that we have to go beyond prayers. We have to face the reality, we have to acquire power plants to be able to to generate capacity to solve the energy crisis. He did just that and what happened?
These people came they said there has been so much investment we don’t even know what to use the energy for and because of that they cancelled some of the deals just to be able to paint the NDC black…That oh they didn’t do anything it wasn’t about generational capacity, but what they have forgotten is that this country annually needs a beef up of about 250 megawatts capacity. To be able to meet the dumsor challenge that’s what we needed.”
She emphasized that because the NDC is a party of visionaries they arranged for power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to to be intermittently brought into the country.
“The PPAs that we signed were scheduled so that it would come as and when we were falling out of generation.”
I don’t know if they [New Patriotic Party] didn’t envisage all this and ran to town and started preaching excess capacity. “Today, here we are contemplating on cutting down power supply to our neighboring countries,” she remarked.