In last year’s State of the Nation address, President Mahama blamed his predecessors for the crises in power delivery. He said they had not made the requisite investments and that it was their non-performance, which had led us to the crises. In other words the President declined responsibility. Today, when we are witnessing some positive development in power delivery the President makes a u-turn and claims he accepted full responsibility last year. That was, regretfully, a palpable untruth.
Let us remind ourselves of what the real facts are:
The NDC in 2012 promised to increase installed power generation capacity from 2,443 megawats to 5,000 megawats by 2016. The installed capacity was not to be predicated on emergency power plants. The current 800 megawats, which the President speaks of, is today delivered by emergency power plants, which are costing the consumers a fortune. They are not a permanent solution to our power generation challenge.
