"When There Is A Decade of Decay, That Decay Cannot Be Fixed In A Matter Of Months"

“ ..I was more than satisfied because I know the truth about the situation,I know the truth about the power situation, I know the truth about the water situation, the type of investment that have gone in it and the thing we have to remember as Ghanaians is that when there is more than a decade of decay, that decay cannot be fixed in a matter of months…,” these were the words of the General Secretary of the ruling national Democratic Party(NDC) after the President’ State of the Nation's Address on Thursday.

The General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has promised Ghanaians that the erratic power supply currently being faced by Ghanaians will soon be rectified by the Mahama-led administration.

According to him, Ghana is at a “threshold of a major breakthrough” as government makes frantic efforts to curb the energy crises in the country.

“I think that the difficulties we are experiencing now are temporary,” he stated.

In an interview with TV3 after the State of the Nation address by the President on Thursday, General Mosquito, as he is affectionately called, expressed satisfaction with President’s approach on the energy sector, saying, government has made several interventions to improve the energy situation and so stressed that the country will in the next three months experience a major leap in power generation.

He was optimistic that electricity distribution to deprived areas will be stabilized during the four-year term of President John Mahama.

He explained that the power fluctuations are as a result of demand exceeding generation and therefore believed the Mahama-led administration will take the necessary steps to address the situation.

“..All the projects that he (President Mahama) spoke about, they are projects that we are witnesses to and all the timelines he’s talking about are timelines that we are all aware of…so, I think that the difficulties we are experiencing now are temporary and within a matter of two-three months, we will make a quantum leap in the energy generation to an extent that we will be able to stabilize the distribution,” he said.

He added that he was very confident of the measures being put in place to restore energy.

“To the cynics, they will continue to doubt, but the fruits will show and justify the efforts that we’ve put in. And when you take the rehabilitation of the grid; electricity grid throughout the country and the investment in new transformers, in new substations and so on. I think that these are the right things that ought to have been done in previous years but because of neglect, we are suffering the consequences. We will get out of this and we can assure Ghanaians that Ghana will never back into this amount of difficulties with our power,” he assured all.

The President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament, said that his government is making frantic efforts to curtail the nation’s erratic power supply. The President called on the citizenry to grit their teeth as government works around the clock to resolve the problem. He noted that since power was critical to the development of the country, he would go the extra mile to expedite works at the energy sector which has a direct bearing on productivity in the industrial and the agricultural sectors. He further professed on the floor of Parliament that the current situation was nothing good any government could write home about and that the magnitude of the crisis, has caused him sleepless nights. President Mahama therefore assured Ghanaians that despite the challenges facing the nation, Ghana will increase power generation to ensure we have reliable power supply and so, become a net exporter of power in years to come. He assured Ghanaians that the Mahama-led government will soon nip the problem in the bud.

Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana