.... More Or Less A Bluff

Mahama promises through his dreams, Ghana's own gas by end of year 20..? (Which year precisely?) The President John Mahama has, at the commissioning of the Bui Hydro-electric Power Project in the Brong Ahafo Region, said Ghana's drive to process and produce her own gas will be achieved by the end of the year 20...? (20.. What?)

The President said he was convinced that the end of year (Which year?) target for processing and production of gas was “realisable”. Unlike energy crisis experienced previously, the current energy challenges have been attributed to unreliable supply of gas from Nigeria.

Nigeria reportedly supplies Ghana exactly 50% standard cubic feet out of an expected 120 million. This situation however, was not lost on the President, but has rather informed Ghana's move to hasten the drive to produce our own gas. This is where I personally opine Mahama is DREAMING, because he is not in the capacity to supply COMMON WATER to his people not to talk about electricity, but turning his tongue impossibly to conjure gas from no where.

Mahama was not frightened and ashamed to say, "ultimately Ghana's security was dependent on our own gas reserves, and has therefore taken a personal interest in the progress of the project by the Ghana Gas company." The Multi-million dollar Ghana Gas Plant Project being constructed at Atuabo in the Ellembele District of the Western Region is expected be completed by the end of the year, he said.

Shamefully workers within the oil and gas communities in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana are currently importing COMMON WATER from the neighbour country Ivory Coast. John Mahama can't amply supply COMMON WATER to his people but dreaming of providing Ghana with gas.

The president kept on beating about the bush that "the plant will enable safe commercial delivery of processed gas from Atuabo to the Aboadze-based Takoradi Thermal Processing Plant (TTPP). It will also to facilitate the transport of LPG from the same site to Domunli for onward evacuation to Accra by sea vessels.

BUT! THE ENERGY EXPERT, Mohammed Amin Adam, of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy has said President Mahama's promise to produce and process gas by the end of the year was unrealistic. When the EXPERT was asked if he believed this target by President Mahama, Mr. Mohammed Amin Adam responded "I don't think it can be possible."

Mohammed Amin Adam, who joins the likes of policy think-tank IMANI Ghana, never wasted time to express scepticism about Mahama's gas the project stipulated (completion) date.

John Mahama promised the Ghanaian people to end the "Dumsor Dumsor" NONSENSE in Ghana but the Ghanaian people are now experiencing the worst "Dumdum".

Ghanaian people must note that, they can never buy anything Mahama sells, it's all weed.

FRANCIS TAWIAH (Duisburg - Germany)