National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Lower Manya Krobo, Ebenezer Teye Larbi says he is surprised at the exaggeration given to the effects of Ghana’s energy crisis.
His shock, he said, stems from the fact that it is persons who cannot afford basic household electrical gadgets such as air conditions and fridges who are rather exaggerating the effects of the crisis.
The effects of Dumsor are “exaggerated by people who cannot afford to buy fridges or air conditions in their homes,” he said.
The NDC Legislator who was reacting to cries on the government to end the crisis on Asempa FM’s Ekosii FM programme further called on Ghanaians to rather invest their “energies into thinking” outside the box than lamenting over the impact of the power crisis.
NPP’s Director of communications, Nana Akomea who was on the show blamed the Mahama-led administration for worsening the plight of Ghanaians by failing to address the power crisis.
But in a quick rebuttal, Mr. Teye Larbi said the NPP is rather creating a mountain out of an ant hill for political expediency.
In his view, the current power crisis is better than what the country went through in 1983. Instead of lamenting on the non-existent impact of the dumsor, the Lower Manya Krobo urged Ghanaians to be smart.
“Let invest our energies in thinking about how to be smart in the dumsor. The effects of dumsor have been over flogged,” he stressed.- adomonline.com
I can believe he had the guts to say this, is it for reasons such as these that the poor pay taxes and elect officials to run the country.
The 1982-85 crisis arose largely as a result of poor rainfall in the Volta River catchment over the 1982-84 period. This was exacerbated by the large power requirements by Valco, the aluminum Smelter which had a contractual requirement of up to 370MW at the time. The combination of the drought in the sub-region and the large power requirements imposed on the Akosombo power plant by Valco resulted in the shortage of power supply from the plant. It is to be noted that, at the time, the country depended solely on the Akosombo power plant for its electricity supplies. Togo and Benin also depended on power delivery from the Akosombo plant through a Power Supply arrangement signed in 1972
The (PNDC) government's response to dealing with the crisis was to negotiate and cut off power supply to Valco with the exception of a minimum amount of power required to maintain smelting equipment, lighting, etc. - read more from myjoyonline
How is the current government responding to this? I found what he said to be insulting,
