Dr. Susan Adu Amankwah, a Communication Team member of the Movement for Change, has expressed disappointment in the NDC administration for trusting the outgone NPP government on the state of Ghana’s energy.
She says the track record of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is enough for the new administration not to trust the report of the outgone Akufo-Addo government on the energy sector.
Dr. Adu-Amankwah believes the Transition Team should have crosschecked what the outgoing government told them rather than sitting aloof to come out with the truth after taking over power.
Speaking on TV3’s BigIssue on NewDay Thursday, January 09, 2025, the Movement for Change member said it is public knowledge that the NPP mismanaged the economy and shouldn’t have been trusted by the incoming administration.
“Why are we having this discussion in the first place if they left enough to cover the whole of January or to cover enough for the 8 weeks that we get a new supply. I have said in the first place that the NPP did not manage this country well.
“You know that it takes 8 weeks, if you start purchasing things in January, you’ll end up in February or even March before they come. So they should have started purchasing in November or October but they didn’t do that. You people came into government on 7th of January, you know that they didn’t do it or they said they have done it, you didn’t crosscheck to see that.
“You should have crosschecked so as much as we can cite that the NPP did not do what they said they will do, I think that the NDC was also too naive to believe what they said,” she analysed.
The conversation comes on the back of a looming power crisis which has been spelt by the Co-Chairman of the Transition Team sub-committee on Energy and Natural Resources, John Abdulai Jinapor, that the country will be shedding load due to the crisis caused by the outgone government.
Mr. Jinapor had said in a Tuesday, January 05, 2025 interview that Ghana’s fuel stock is dangerously low and threatening massive power outages. He said the country had only five hours worth of fuel left for power generation.
Meanwhile, the outgone Energy Minister, Herbert Krapa, had in a statement, refuted the claims, saying the new administration lacks the competence to handle the energy sector and not because there is lack of fuel stock to keep the sector running.
