The Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has assured Ghanaians and the business community that he will augment the current power production of the country with 2,000 megawatts of solar power should he become the leader of the country.
He said he was aware of the increased cost of electricity in doing business, among other challenges but expressed the hope that the 2,000 megawatts of solar power, which was about half of the total electricity consumption of the country, would boost businesses and also reduce the cost of power.
Dr Bawumia, who was speaking during a meeting with members of the Council of Indigenous Business Association (CIBA) in Accra Monday, March 25, 2024, urged traders and businesses to support his bid to be successful in the forthcoming Presidential election in December to help realise that dream.
He called on Ghanaians to give him the chance to be President, saying “I am currently a Vice-President, someone was President, I have not been President before, so give me the chance to be President and you will notice the work I will do.”
“I know I will come to you again after you give me the chance in this year’s elections and so I will work very hard. Someone will come and have a honeymoon because he has just four years,” he added.
The CIBA, which is a group of indigenous businesses, includes the Ghana National Association of Garages, the Ghana Bar Operators Association, the Market Traders Association, the Ghana Traditional Caterers Association, the Ghana National Tailors and Dressmakers Association and the National Refrigerators and Air Condition Workshop Owners Association.
It was established by a Legislative Instrument under ACT 1993 (PNDCL 312) to act as a focal point and a unified voice for the informal business sector in the country to oversee the affairs of all indigenous business associations in the country.
Dr Bawumia, who expressed himself in Twi in his response to concerns raised by the group, assured the Ghana National Association of Traditional Healers that once the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) certified medicines produced by the group, he would ensure those medicines were registered under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
Similarly, the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) bought into a proposal by the National Refrigerators and Air Condition Workshop Owners Association for the establishment of a refrigerator manufacturing plant in the country and promised to assist the association to realise that proposal.
The Vice-President patiently took the group through what the government had been doing with its digitalisation policy, highlighted the benefits of the system to traders and said much as the construction of market infrastructure was essential, traders were already benefiting from the use of digital platforms.
Source: Graphic.com.gh
