Promise: “I John Dramani Mahama will fix this energy challenge”

SONA PRESENTATION1 President John Dramani Mahama in the Parliament of Ghana in Accra promised to bring to an end the ever-worsening energy crisis in the country.

He said: “In the past what we have done is try to manage ourselves out of the situation. I do not intend to manage the situation as has been done in the past, I intend to fix it. I owe it to the Ghanaian people. I John Dramani Mahama will fix this energy challenge”.

How

“We’re working on a proposal to make solar energy available to micro-enterprises & household… By 2016 there will be the addition of 3,665 megawatts to the power grid. New Ministry of power is working on proposals to restructure the power sector beginning with the VRA and the Bui Power Authority. We expect starting from this year and over the next five years to inject 3665 megawatts of power into our power transmission grid” he said.

Lessons

The lesson we must learn from this energy crisis according to the President is to ‘plan better for the future’.

“We would have to double our electricity supplies every eight years to keep up with the demand” he added.

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