[ 2015-02-20 ]

'Ghanaians don’t take me seriously' – Kofi Wayo
Maverick politician Kofi Wayo has told Starr Drive
host Bola Ray that he has a lot to offer the
country but Ghanaians do not take him seriously.

According to him, most of the challenges
confronting the country are basic issues that can
be fixed by Ghanaians themselves without
assistance from the West.

He observed that the country appears to be
struggling due to the over dependency on western
support.

“All of you believe that the President should go
overseas and get money and bring it back.

“I can help but they don’t take me seriously,
because I am too serious,” the United
Renaissance Party (URP) founder said Thursday.

In his view, the energy crisis the country is
currently facing is due to the incompetence of the
managers of the country’s power sector.

He called on President John Mahama to be bold and
sack his energy experts if he is serious about
solving the energy crisis.

Ghana is currently shedding between 440 and 650
Megawatts of power during off-peak and peak
periods as a result of a production deficit.

The production shortfall has come about due to
poor hydrology of the three main hydro-electric
power stations – Akosombo, Bui and Kpong – as
well as lack of gas from the West Africa Gas
Pipeline in Nigeria to supply gas to various
thermal plants in the country.

As a result, both domestic and commercial
consumers are bearing the brunt of the crisis,
which Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor recently
promised will end by December 2015.

Source - Starrfmonline

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