The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) Director of Legal Directorate, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, has voiced concerns regarding the government’s purported proposal to rename the Ameri Power Plant as the Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant.
The commissioning of the Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant (K1TPP) in Anwomaso in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region is scheduled for Wednesday, April 17, according to a recent Facebook post by the Volta River Authority.
Mr. Tameklo expressed his opinion in a Facebook post on Saturday, April 13, saying he saw the move as a deliberate attempt to mislead Ghanaians, particularly those who reside in the Ashanti Region, where the facility is located.
He also claimed that the attempt by the government to change Ameri Power Plants is to hoodwink voters in the region in the upcoming 2024 polls.
He makes note of the fact that the Ameri Power Plants, which were first acquired by the late President John Dramani Mahama, were built to lessen the nation’s power issue while he was in office and had a 25 megawatt electrical generating capacity.
“Bawumia and Akufo-Addo out of shame have decided to repackage and rename the AMERI plants as Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant. This is what they are planning to go and commission.
“This corrupt, incompetent, useless and wasteful government are determined to hoodwink voters in the Ashanti region with the renaming and repackaging. This administration has failed to do anything meaningful in power generation.”
Read below Edudzi Tamaklo’s post on Facebook
AKUFO ADDO AND BAWUMIA REPACKAGED AMERI POWER PLANT AS KUMASI 1 THERMAL POWER PLANT.
Between 2013 and 2015, visionary leader, John Dramani Mahama in his desire to end dumsor, brought the Ameri Power Plants comprising 10 units, each with the capacity to generate 25 megawatts of electricity.
Akufo Addo and BAWUMIA decided to demonize John Mahama for this game-changer emergency power deployment.
The Akufo Addo and BAWUMIA administration decided to relocate 6 units out of the 10 to the Ashanti region to generate 150 megawatts of electricity for the middle belt of the country.
The remaining 4 deployed to give T3 an additional 100 megawatts.
BAWUMIA and Akufo Addo out of shame have decided to repackage and rename the AMERI plants as Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant.
This is what they are planning to go and commission.
This corrupt, incompetent, useless and wasteful government are determined to hoodwink voters in Ashanti region with the renaming and repackaging.
This administration has failed to do anything meaningful in power generation.
Time is up.
They must go.
