Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga has blasted President Akufo-Addo for failing to acknowledge former President John Mahama when he cut sod for the commencement of the construction of a 400MW Bridge Power project.
According to the NDC, although the world’s largest LPG-fired power plant was one of the numerous projects John Mahama bequeathed President Akufo-Addo; the latter deliberately failed to acknowledge the exploits of his predecessor.
Peeved by the President’s ingratitude, the former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovations took to facebook to lay bare the facts surrounding the 400MW Bridge Power project.
He wrote: “Prez Akufo-Addo cut sod last week for the construction of an LPG-fired power plant at Tema and refused to acknowledge the JM government for the good work done. Now this is the whole story.
Early Power Project. General Electric (GE) and GoG signed the Ghana 1000 MoU in 2013 under which GE was to build a 1,000 mw plant at Aboadze.
In January 2015, Sage on behalf of GE and Endeavour (the other consortium member) presented a proposal to the newly formed Ministry of Power to build an LPG-fired power plant at Tema on a fast track basis to help solve the power problem. The project was sanctioned by the Ministry of Power for negotiations.
Around March 2015, JM met the CEO of GE during the signing of the ENI agreement and made a special request to him to see to the construction of the power plant.This request was reiterated by the Minister for Power when he met the GE CEO during the same trip.
The project was approved provisionally by Cabinet in February 2016 and received Executive Approval in July 2016. Parliament approved it in August 2016. This is the project for which President Akuffo Addo cut sod at Tema on Thursday April 27, 2017. JM legacy.”
Speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony, at Tema, last week, President Akufo-Addo noted that the $1 billion project is consistent with his government’s vision of making Ghana self-sufficient in electricity for industrial and domestic use, and to drive the country’s socio-economic development.
This project, the President revealed, would be one of several initiatives that will be introduced along the power supply value chain in order to achieve a cost effective, efficient and sustainable energy sector.
“For us laypersons, our interest in these agreements rests largely on cost, reliability and flexibility. I am glad to learn the plant will be able to operate on LPG, natural gas, and diesel, and this flexibility will allow the plant to continue producing power in times of disruption in the supply of any one of the fuel types.
I am also glad to note that the project has been specifically designed to switch to Ghana’s own natural gas, once available.
This should help advance our strategy to leverage natural gas as a long-term source of fuel, central to the operation of the power sector,” he said.
Source: The Al-Hajj
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NPP cannot cut sod for any project yet bcos no feasibility study of any NPP promised project has taken place yet. all sod cutting project were programmes initiated by the former government
Seriously...i SHY give NDC and her followers paa oo. Mahama contracted the loan in the name of Ghana (which added to our debt stock). Is the money for Mahama or for Ghana? Then Nana Addo must as well acknowledged Mahama b4 he spends any monies that were printed or accrued in his ( Mahama) tenure! Where from this "Praise him, for he brought this and that" thing? Ghanaians knew that, if we left Mahama and the NDC to continue...loans taken for such projects will be diverted to individual pockets!. So ee praise NADAA...for making our monies work!
@ Ernest. You are so right. H.E. Nana Addo is cleaning up the mess left over and has not started his own work. You have said the truth! Flesh and blood did not reveal this to you.
IS THIS THING MAHAMA AYARIGA STILL AROUND AND MAKING NOISE? I THOUGHT THIS DISHONEST MAN HAD LEFT PARLIAMENT ALREADY.
Folks the fact is that there are not many good things anyone could acknowledge about Mahama's stewardship.Unles the NDc wants to tout the ineptitude, corruption wanton th13very and untold hardships brought on the denizens of this country as achievements.
So far Nana Addo is the only president who hasn't acknowledged any good thing done by his predecessor. It's a shame!
Does this f001not get it? We are simply not interested in John Mahama;what he did or did not do .We want to go to bed in peace .Is it not a crying shame that someone by-passed many worthy Ghanaians and helped this schmuck get an education in Harvard? What a waste.
Ernest,steer ben? Aah! the car John mahama sent to ditch or what? You people are real id*ots, so you can't understand the 1.5 million margin is a real rejection of your JM and your party? Ghanaians are happy and satisfied ndc is no more,Ghanaians have peace of mind to go about their businesses who cares if an ndc is not happy or is suffering? Is because the hand outs are no more coming and it will never happen again so find some work to do, lazy hands are bound to suffer. Ghanaians happy even the airwaves have some sanity with ndc in opposition. Never think the majority who ganged up against ndc and send them to everlasting opposition will ever rescind their decision for ndc to c ome back 'NEVER'. Mark it anywhere, 2020 ndc will get less than 40% in presidential and 50 seats for parliamentary. What message the new ndc that turned the worst ndc? Or the adzi wofie oye? All that will never work again for the ndc. Ghanaians are conformable with the NPP than the ndc even election results show of all your rigging the results showed close. When the rigging was detected and stopped in the middle of the show look at the disgrace and humiliation. You still have mouths to talk JM begye steer no what steer? The republic of ndc is not coming to invade Ghana again because the people are wide awake and will protect and defend Ghana.
Ayariga, the man who doesn't know any shame. Did you people ever appreciate the discovery of the oil in commercial quantity by the Kufour's administration which you mismanaged the income from it. You did nothing with this money with the exception of the so called CAPACITY BUILDING. You better keep quiet and return the tractors bought during Kufour's era. Did NDC recognize the construction of the Bui Dam in which Asiedu Nketia took advantatage for the production of Blocks at Cut-throat price. The first project Mahama commissioned within the few months of Mills administration was One side of the Mile 7 Inter change Bridge and part of the Tetteh Quarshie -Lagon road. You people pretended as if both were your projects. So what are you saying?
Late Prof. Mills and Mahama also inherited projects initiated by Kuffour. The same thing Nana Addo also will continue Mahama's. By the way Mahama was a flop and that Ghanaisns rejected him with over 1.5 million people. This is TOTAL rejection by Ghanaians. Even his works were all bloated propaganda. It is if you kill a Goat say you Kill and Elephant works.