[ 2016-07-27 ]

Flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Ivor Greenstreet

Greenstreet blasts Mahama over 'dumsor'
Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, presidential candidate of
the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has stated
that the Mahama-led administration is bereft of
ideas to tackle the resurgent power crisis that
has led to the collapse of businesses in the
country.

According to him, the country is endowed with
alternative power sources for commercial and
industrial use, but the government had failed to
utilize the other permutations.

Assurances

Government communicators have over the years
given various assurances that the government was
working to solve the power rationing, popularly
referred to as dumsor, but the crisis still
persists.

It would be recalled that President John Mahama,
in an address to Muslims on the occasion of Eid
ul-Fitr at the Independence Square last month,
said that the ongoing power outage experienced in
the country was not load shedding.

In his view, the erratic power supply was due to
Ghana’s inability to receive crude oil it had
imported from Nigeria caused by what he described
as “sabotage” in that country.

However, the CPP’s flagbearer believes the NDC
government would have long solved the problem if
it had any solutions to offer.

New dawn

Addressing party faithful at Akumadan in the
Offinso North Constituency of the Ashanti Region
during the CPP’s ‘Apam foforo’ tour, Mr
Greenstreet stated that the party’s approach to
the energy problem would lead to a reduction in
the cost of electricity over time.

Chanting ‘dumsor,’ ‘dumsor,’
‘Mahama,’ to the ecstatic crowd, the CPP
leader noted that the NDC administration had lost
the plot to fix dumsor, urging the people to give
‘Mahama light off koraah’ (massively vote
Mahama out).

“…What we are offering is a medium to
long-term solution to the country’s chronic
energy deficit. Ghana has huge renewable energy
resources waiting to be tapped. We have to be
creative…,” he charged.

Citing the United States for instance, the CPP
presidential candidate, who is a lawyer, was
emphatic that currently the US is working on a
3,000-megawatt wind park in South Wyoming covering
1,000 hectares with 1,000 wind turbines.

He said the US is implementing a wind energy
programme to ensure that 20% of its energy mix
would come from wind by 2030.

“…Under my presidency, Ghana will do it
bigger and better just like Kwame Nkrumah and
Akosombo…” he underscored, adding, “Research
on CPP’s proposals had been conducted by one of
Ghana and CPP’s foremost engineers, Robert
Woode.”

He indicated that the Volta River lies between
two parallel mountain ranges forming a 1,000km
trough from the North to Ada, which is a wind
corridor.

Utilizing the Wind

Mr Greenstreet contended that CPP would install
wind turbines in this corridor to utilize the wind
to create energy.

The CPP leader said tidal waves peculiar to this
area are induced by the wind in the corridor,
insisting “…That’s why people put big stones
on their roofs there…We must take advantage of
this free gift of nature.”

He said that installing the turbines with a
calculated wind outage of 66 percent over the
whole stretch of 1000 kilometers would guarantee
9,000 mw at all times.

This, Greenstreet noted, would meet the
country’s energy needs cheaply with sufficient
power left over for sale to neighbouring countries
to rake in additional revenue for the government.

Source - dailyguideafrica.com

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