Kojo Adu Asare, a former Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency and member of the National Democratic Congress has urged Ghanaians to pray more for the nation so that measures put in place by government to address the power challenges yield positive results.
His comment follows indications that the much awaited Karpower ship has set sail to Ghana. The power ship is expected to add some 225 megawatts of power to the national electricity grid to help mitigate the the effects of dumsor.
Speaking on the Big Issue on Saturday, Mr. Adu Asare said news about the power ship is good for Ghana “and we only pray that…if you listen to the Power Minister carefully, he also kept on telling us that let us pray, and which for me is what has kept us.”
“The point is that, you can say ‘A’ and it can delay so let’s pray that it doesn’t delay, prayer gives you hope and faith,” he added.
The former Adentan legislator further refuted claims that the Minister of power, Mr. Kwabena Donkor had assured that dumsor will end by close of this year.
“The Minister has come out to say that, yes, with the arrival of the Karpower with Kpong project almost ending and also TICO and the other projects put together is going to give us some in the region of 650 megawatts and that might help to reduce the challenges that we have.”
In a related development, Dr. Kwabena Donkor has reaffirmed his assurance that the current load management will end by the close of year.
He said government’s ability to undertake major infrastructure works to facilitate the production of power is an indication of saving the country’s reeling power sector.
Dr. Donkor was speaking at a sod cutting ceremony of a Ghanaian-owned power distribution firm, Enclave Power Company on Friday.
“The units of the AMERI energy project have landed on our shores, civil works are ongoing quite close to completion and we expect that before the end of the year, that should also be working. All things being equal, we believe we are on schedule, but we cannot be 100 percent certain, but in terms of our planning, in terms of equipment availability, we should be in a position to pronounce load shedding over by the end of the year as planned,” Mr. Donkor said.
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