"DRIP is not Akufo-Addo's legacy!"
Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye delves into the DRIP initiative, revealing how all the “DRIP” machines acquired under the Mahama administration mysteriously vanished under the NPP government.
@CitizenTechiman This Man is still at post at GNPC as Corporate Finance director, he needs to be changed as soon as possible. Ndc is naked. He will be sending information npp.
Dear @JDMahama
Pls this Man is current at GNPC holding two positions Director of Human Resource & Administration. He was recently appointed by NPP. Pls sack him. He lead the massive transfers of perceived NDC members @afrane_q@FelixKwakyeOfo1@joyce_bawah@Beatrice_Annan1
Today Bernard Avle called on all to call-out our friends in politics and be honest with them when they're not performing. That was a great call,but I remember his silence on his fellow Odade3 Opoku-Ahweneeh Danquah some months ago @Citi973 . Obiara boa...
Elon, let's dive into the world of constitutional law, shall we? It seems you've mistaken the judiciary for a speed bump on your personal highway of whims. First off, calling a judge an "activist" because they don't rubber-stamp every executive action is like calling a Tesla a 'lemon' because it doesn't fly. Judges, Elon, are there to ensure the law isn't treated like your latest software update, subject to your whims without checks.
And your tweet about democracy being destroyed by a judicial coup? That's like saying Mars is attacking Earth because your rocket didn't land where you wanted. The judiciary isn't staging coups; they're doing their job, which is to interpret the law, not to bow to the throne of the POTUS.
Now, onto your buddy Paul's question about the point of elections if judges can override everything a POTUS does. Here's a civics lesson: elections choose leaders, judges ensure those leaders don't turn into autocrats. It's like saying, "What's the point of having a car if there are speed limits?" The point, Paul, is to prevent chaos, not to give one person unchecked power.
Elon, maybe you should stick to electric cars and space travel, areas where your innovative spirit can shine without misunderstanding the delicate balance of power in a democracy. Remember, the rule of law isn't a suggestion, it's the foundation of our society, not something to be bypassed because it's inconvenient to your narrative.
@FoxNews@realDonaldTrump@karolineleavitt
Here is my prayer:
That a time will come when the middle-classes won't allow a Minister to get away with "broad generalities" in Ghana.
When he says, Ghana will terminate the Pwalugu Dam contract, we would ask the following:
1. PowerChina, the contractor on the project, has already departed the site many months ago.
2. The contractor has sold project materials and "de-mobilised". The agreement has thus already been constructively terminated. Termination is hardly the big issue here.
3. What we want you to tell us are as follow:
A. Do you intend to call upon the guarantee issued by Stanbic Bank based on which the advanced payment to PowerChina was made?
B. Has the government discharged its obligations in a manner that should allow it to call on the guarantee?
C. If not, is the ~$12 million paid to PowerChina gone forever?
4. Will the project scope be reviewed? No serious financier is going to give Ghana nearly $500 million to build a dam, whose primary commercialisation strategy is a 60 MW hydro dam with a 50 MW solar plant latched on as an afterthought.
5. Power sales from this dam shall be simply unprofitable. Especially in the current context where far more capital-effifient power plants are owed lots of money by the state in Ghana's bankrupt electricity sector.
6. Are you going to review and publish the commercial feasibility plan for the irrigation component? Will you show us how local farmers can pay enough per cubic meter of water to offset the crazy costs of building the dam? What tariffs do you have in mind? When will see that paper?
7. Recall that an initial scoping even put the cost of the dam at over $900 million. This strongly implies likely budget overruns. Do we have a standing commitment to fund this project no matter how much it costs? Or have you found a way to bring down the capital costs to the $100m that would bring it closer to comparable projects that were not designed with Pwalugu's social objectives in mind?
8. In many ways, this was a badly designed project that was never going to find funding. WHAT DIFFERENT STRATEGY are you proposing to make it financially viable?
9. You have re-committed to build the dam at all cost for political reasons. Given how tight money is in IMF-bailout Ghana, would you prioritise this dam over your other agric interventions? Which ones are you willing to slash if push comes to shove?
10. In short, we need a critical mass of citizens that won't settle for the opaque governance we have in Ghana currently. Who will push for the "optimal transparency" needed to truly analyse the quality of government's policy actions. Would we ever see such a critical mass emerge?
Second, this dam project has been viewed in classical ORAL fashion: somebody has taken Ghana's $12m and we just want it back.
But as I have explained above, it is a far more complex issue. Full transparency would help clarify how the country will save or recover money. It won't be as simple as just "retrieving" what was paid. Most ORAL situations look like this.
Citizens who support ORAL must therefore learn to be interested in detail and push the new government to ditch the opaque model we have become accustomed to and embrace a new era of openness and analysis.
Without a change in how government operates, including far higher levels of transparency so that the careful reforms needed can be assessed before implementation, citizens are going to be very disappointed.
For any real change to come, we, as citizens, especially those in the middle classes, must stop being satisfied with headline announcements and surface measures.
@CheEsquire@joyce_bawah@JDMahama@JohnJinapor@SammyGyamfi_ The same NPP appointed managers and directors are the ones in charge. The entire leadership of GNPC Management in 2017 were all transferred because they were perceived as NDC people.
Proud to bring you good news, that indeed Ghana has a new president and one who is poised to lead us into the future. It is obvious that President John Dramani Mahama has ushered us into a new era, a refreshingly bright era filled with optimism and hope and I dare say that all of us will soon see the future of the Ghana we all want.
For the first time since its inception, the African Prosperity Dialogues received enormous recognition from the people of Ghana and in the same weekend Ghanaians have expressed a strong optimism and support for President John Mahama in the first few weeks of this administration.
#MahamathePresident
@AnnanPerry GNPC HR’s secret recruitment of NPP-affiliated National Service person after the December elections is mind boggling Reports reveal they backdated employment letters and ruthlessly sacked individuals perceived to support the NDC @joyce_bawah@JDMahama@JohnJinapor@SammyGyamfi_
@NDCwebb@JDMahama GNPC HR’s secret recruitment of NPP-affiliated National Service person after the December elections is mind boggling Reports reveal they backdated employment letters and ruthlessly sacked individuals perceived to support the NDC @joyce_bawah@JDMahama@JohnJinapor@SammyGyamfi_