We’ll End Load-Shedding – NPP

Published in Daily Guide on October 25, 2012

 

Nana Akomea

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to end the load-shedding exercise that the country is often bedeviled with when voted into power.
At a press conference in Accra yesterday, Communications Director of the party Nana Akomea said, “When it becomes necessary to ration electricity, the NPP will depart from the current situation where whole areas are blacked out totally.”
He believed the current mode of load-shedding, which was ‘total blackout’, was “archaic and too distressful”, wondering why the nation would undergo a load-shedding exercise when the Akosombo Dam was operating normally and at its peak.
The situation is said to be having a terrible toll on businesses, industries and households, welfare and social lives of millions of Ghanaians as some households have been exposed to robbery attacks.
Nana Akomea said the NPP was considering a number of options in regulating efficient power supply to every Ghanaian home including “simple (radio controlled) domestic devices that shut off parts of the electricity supply (say higher power consuming devices), leaving power available for essentials (lighting, radio etc)”.
He stated that the party planned to “assist domestic consumers to acquire portable, battery-operated power banks (akin to UPS) that store power and make it available for considerable time when the mains is off”.
Another backup arrangement, according Nana Akomea, was to “assist and encourage consumers to install simple, inexpensive solar systems to provide power to essential domestic devices when the mains are off”.
He disputed the NDC government’s claim to have increased power supply over the last three-and-a-half years, noting that “this ‘unprecedented’ boost is being made and repeated even as the nation has for months been suffering from electricity rationing.”
In order to achieve its promise of an industrial and economic transformation, he said, there was need to boost energy supply in the country.
In that regard, the party’s Communications Director stated, “Our presidential candidate is solidly committed to investment”; the reason for which Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had “outlined his commitment to investment in energy to spur our industrial take off”.
He urged Ghanaians to support the NPP by voting for the party to achieve these energy goals for Ghana.