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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Hon. Simon Osei-Mensah has described the leadership of President John Dramani Mahama as one without vision to see the rippling effect of his medium term solution to the energy crises.

According to him, it takes a visionary and good leader to take the best solution at the best time and prefers the President and his team had dwelled on providing immediate solution than the medium term one which can take one year or more to fully implement.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s "Ade Akye Abia" Morning Show, the Member of ECOWAS Parliament wondered why the President and his Minister of Power are thinking of medium term solution in the midst of people losing their businesses and properties to the erratic power supply.

He described the President’s decision to purchase power barges from Turkey as "serious maladministration" stressing that Ghanaians need power today to sustain their businesses and the government is rather thinking of one year before the erratic power supply will over.

“You have some thermal plants and so just buy the crude though it is expensive in relative term as compared to hydro and gas to power the emergency plant then when people get power to sustain their businesses, you take the initiative to bring in more plants so that in future even if the demand for power increase there will be additional plants to meet the demand….this is not the time to think of medium-term of solution; this is maladministration…seriously maladministration”, he chided.

Addressing the NDC government's call on the NPP to offer alternatives, Hon. Simon Osei-Mensah replied “granted we have not provided alternative solution to the energy crises, have we not told them to buy crude to power the thermal plants as an immediate solution for the crises”?

He again stated that the excuse from the NDC government that the thermal plants need repair show the highest level of incompetence of the President Mahama administration for failing to repair the machines within the three years of their second term in office.

“....in three years you couldn’t repair the machines and now you are looking for money to go for barges in Turkey and you think you can do it?” he quizzed.