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On My Humble Mind: The Ministry Of Power - A Creation Of A Confused President

Feature Article On My Humble Mind: The Ministry Of Power - A Creation Of A Confused President
NOV 24, 2014 LISTEN

The announcement over weekend issued by President John Dramani Mahama's Chief of Staff, Mr. Prosper Bani of the President's intention to create a new Ministry of Power comes as a surprise to many Ghanaians.

Under the presidency of John Dramani Mahama, ​many ​the so called interventions undertaken to bring the current energy crisis to an appreciable end continue to be a mirage. The country seems to be chasing a never to be solution to the crisis.

Many Presidential and Ministerial promises have not been achieved.

The suffering of Ghanaians can only worsen with this amorphous ministry created with an intention only to create confusion in the energy/power sector of our economy.

The trappings of a ministry come with huge financial burden to the tax payers.

The pale line between energy and power, makes decoupling them extremely unimaginable.

The proposed appointment of Dr Kwabena Donkor, MP for Pru East and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy, as Minister-Designate for the newly created Ministry is a creation of a confused president.

ENERGY is a property of objects, transferable among them via fundamental interactions, which can be converted in form but not created or destroyed. The joule is the SI unit of energy, based on the amount transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it 1 metre against a force of 1 newton

POWER is the rate of doing work. It is equivalent to an amount of energy consumed per unit time. In the MKS system, the unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century developer of the steam engine.

So what is the president trying to do by setting up a new ministry of power ?

Energy in an inherent character of every conceivable object. Energy can't be created nor destroyed. It can only be transferred from one form to another

Power is just a measure of work the energy exerted can do !!

I am really sorry about the government of John Dramani Mahama.

Unless we all work to vote this inept government out of power, the plethora of crises bedeviling the nation will persist for a long time.

Unless and until we all resolved to ensure that the government under Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo become the president of Ghana and the New Patriotic Party, the energy and/or power crisis will drive the country into the dark ages.

The country is literally being rushed rudely into a situation where lanterns and charcoal will be used as sources of light and energy for our domestic use.

Many countries we began our nation hood journey with have over taken us many lights year away.

The leadership under President John Dramani Mahama's NDC seems to have signed a pact with ineptitude.

The only hope for our country is voting for the man who has the vision, tenacity of purpose, the drive and urgency to arrest the current decadence in our society and to restore hope and massive transformational programs in Ghana.

We all have a stake in changing the present situation. No one in Ghana should be left out. This is not just a party matter.

This is not an NPP only and/or Nana Akufo-Addo​ only​ matter. This is a matter for us all.

Our votes in 2016 can make a difference. Let's vote for Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo to rescue the country from further rush into the dark age situation.

Ghanaians deserve better, Ghanaians deserve an Akufo-Addo presidency.

Thank you.

Fred Amankwah-SARFO

(Member, NPP)

(+233 24 4255 525 and

+233 54 433 1324)

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