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Mahama creates new power Ministry; Dr Kwabena Donkor as Minister-Designate

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  • kwame kofi 9 years ago

    gud news

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    AUTHOR: MARTIN A.B.K. AMIDU....

    It would appear that those in control of the NDC, for the time being, were bent on excluding other bona fide members of the Party who may wish to lay democratic claims to who becomes the ne ...
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  • OYOKOBA 9 years ago

    Mahama has proven he can't reassign or kick out Emmanuel Kofi Armah Buah, the Energy Minister, without incurring the wrath of the Nzemas, hence going around him to create another ministry that to all purposes and intentions w ...
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  • Theseus 9 years ago

    The root cause of the problem is a lack of funding for the energy institutions. Adding another ministry that will need money for overhead and their operations is not the answer unless this it part of the plan to privatize ECG ...
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  • Nanayaw Mansong 9 years ago

    Should it not be ministry of energy? Where did this "power" come from? Tweaaaa

  • Chief amankwa 9 years ago

    This is wasteful exercise to waste public money .when we are suppose to reduce red tape .
    Ministry of energy has to deal with all that .

    You see the president is all over the place ..

  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    Chief, I agree with you that a new ministry is not required to deal with the energy crisis. Instead, the President should have sacked the minister for Energy who has failed and is incompetent. All what is required is effectiv ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:PIFF POFF...
    THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE HAS COLLAPSED. THE NHIS HASN'T REIMBURSED ALL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR 9 MONTHS NOW BUT THIS IS WHAT THE THIEVING NDC/MAHAMBOLE ARE USING OUR TAX FOR. WHILE THE ACC GENE ...
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  • Abraham 9 years ago

    Stupid mind have you ever in your life work before talking about tax payers money....how many of you pay tax in Ghana? Previous governments did nothing for Ghana Electricity knowing the population is growing and not supportin ...
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  • Egya Morkeh 9 years ago

    What is the use of the Energy Minister? What is the difference between Energy and Power?

    Newtonian physics states E=mc (squared). We are changing equation midstream.

  • Effiah 9 years ago

    We need someone to focus on power issues. Buah alone cannot just manage the current situation. Stop the semantics, we need power to run our industries and homes.

  • Jsaves 9 years ago

    What a stupid idea. You mean to say we need two people to manage our energy sector? If Buah alone do it give to me and I will manage that and education at the same time!

  • Kato 9 years ago

    I think Morkeh is right. The President is really confused and has no ideas. A ministry to handle power? What is the essence and existence of the energy ministry? Ghana is too small a country to have two ministries handling en ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    I thought as much what would be the job for the previous ministry or it would be dissolved like NACOB?

    I quote from the article “…The President expects the new Ministry to bring about a sharper focus on the generation ...
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  • Kwami 9 years ago

    I LOVE THESE ACTIONS..........MORE OF SUCH ACTION, MR. PRESIDENT.

  • Effiah 9 years ago

    Power and Petroluem was too much for Armah Buah. This will bring focus and efficiency to issues of energy. I like the choice of Kobina Donkor

  • Tigani 9 years ago

    what a wow,,,, mahama is loosing it,

    then we need minister for cocaine
    minister for Guinea fowl
    minister for trees
    minister for big ASS
    hahaha

  • K-M 9 years ago

    It sounded like a very shallow minded and a demented idiot

  • The mask 9 years ago

    Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.

    Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the on ...
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  • Jsaves 9 years ago

    Mahama will appoint a Minister to manage Mahama and streamline his head towards better ideas. What a moron of a President!!

  • WASHISHI 9 years ago

    ENERGY IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF ANY NATION,ITS TOO BIG FOR A SINGLE MINISTRY ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE GAS,PETROLUME AND THERMAL PLANTS ,THE DISTRIBUTION TO THE POPULACE WOULD NEED A SEPERATE MINISTRY HENCE THIS IS A GOOD MOVE B ...
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  • Joe 9 years ago

    Panicking president and his panic measures. This man is just not cut for the job.

  • Toffey 9 years ago

    Exactly! When he was a communication minister, i remember him disgracing himself by not being able to tell what an engineer was on a Talk Shop program by KSM on Vibe FM. He doesn't know tiiinnnnn!

  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 9 years ago

    The decision to import gas from Nigeria was a vey poor one.How can a nation which has failed to satisfy its own internal energy needs provide us with an uninterrupted supply of gas? Thank God the Atuabo gas plant is ready to ...
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  • KKO 9 years ago

    what illiteracy! The Atuabo GAS PLANT supplying gas? It needs gas to function. It is a POWER PLANT, not a gas field. Haha! With people like this at the helm of the NDC why wouldn't Ghana go to the dogs?

  • Nii Kaneshie 9 years ago

    New Ministry? Oh oh!! What a way to wast the scarce resource available, or is it an other job for the boys. There is a Ministry and a Minister of Energy already in existence; if that agency is not performing, make changes the ...
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  • Sammy 9 years ago

    sorry Mr president,you are losing the battle

  • Muscatela 9 years ago

    It it not this Dr. who was advocating for coal use as an alternative source of energy or power production in Ghana? How could such a person with a jaundiced viewpoint on energy be appointed to such a ministry?just a team of ...
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  • Muscatela 9 years ago

    Is it not.....

  • Sammy 9 years ago

    muscatela,infact I don't believe in mahama appointing another minister but coal as an alternative to hydro and thermal is very commendable.

  • Muscatela 9 years ago

    Bro Sammy, the cons of coal use outweighs the pros hence it is not prudent to recommend it as an alternative source of energy whiles solar and wind energy remain untapped to meet our energy needs.Many countries have discontin ...
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  • Atubugah 9 years ago

    Do not be deceived. Another kinsman. He critised a lot. He has now been given the job. He is not a magician. But he has joined the loot and share until 2015. I wish Ghana were in the Levant.

  • Liars! 9 years ago

    Any serious-minded president would have sacked Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah a long time ago. What are the functions of the Council of State? To only drink tea, eat meat pie and collect fat sitting allowances? What a country! It i ...
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  • JOHN 9 years ago

    THAT GOOD OF MAHAMA

  • Chargaff 9 years ago

    It beats my imagination as to why Ghana, the land of gold, , should depend on NIGERIA for its survival. Mr new Minister, pls take us off Nigeria

  • sly 9 years ago

    What is the dupty junapor doing then ha
    ve you seen that talk is so cheap now they dont have any ideas to manage the ministry of energy waste of resources

  • Chief 9 years ago

    Creat a minstry of common sense

  • daigreenon fui thackley 9 years ago

    l think the president is on spot for creating the new ministry for the reasons cited and equally give dr. donkor a pat at the back for putting government on its toes to act. there is no reason why we should in anyway attempt ...
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  • Posh 9 years ago

    Why can't the present Energy minister do the same thing as proposed by Kwame Donkor? Do we need a consultant to tell us we need to develop our own gas fields since the gas come with the oil? Does the president use his cerebra ...
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  • KK 9 years ago

    What's wrong with this stupid Mahana? Is he alright? Does he reason as a normal human being? I doubt it looking at his actions and decision. You are creating ministries at this jenture where you are unable to pay the existing ...
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  • LAK, Tema 9 years ago

    The Government must encourage the use of Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) in our energy mix, and abandon the business of imposing import duties on equipment for solar, wind and other alternative energy systems - these inc ...
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  • EC 9 years ago

    This MP is the one advocating for coal as a source of energy in the country, at a time the whole world is moving away from coal.
    The generation of energy from coal which this MP has been advocating and has thus been appoint ...
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  • Kwaku 9 years ago

    Coal represents a large part of meeting the energy needs of most industrial nations. I would advice you to look at the energy supply proportion of the US and China. Coal if used would be a short term measure to deal with the ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Why not create more ministries for the various components of the energy ministry? Let's have Ministry of VRA, Ministry of ECG, Ministry of Bui Dam, Ministry of Aboadze Thermal Plant, Ministry of GRIDCO, etc. Maybe that should ...
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  • Mystic, NY 9 years ago

    Unless all Ghanaian's are educated and take seriously the importance of protecting the environment, water bodies whether small or big. None of these half baked measures will work. It is unfortunate "Africans" cannot plan for ...
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  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    SO, what is the min. of ENERGY doing when we have Min. of Power in addition ??? Ghanaians are really FOOLS!! You don't have money to balance your NATIONAL BUDGET but ALWAYS looking at ways to SPEND THE LITTLE LEFT !!!!!
    Just ...
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  • Dr.William Acquah 9 years ago

    This Prez.is really clueless and should be sacked!Creating a new power ministry can never solve the power problems we have.Workers all over our country are demonstrating because some haven`t been paid for years.Creating a new ...
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  • Kwaku 9 years ago

    Dr William Acquah if you are certian that the new ministry will fail do you by chance have the answer to our power needs

  • KKO 9 years ago

    What is the point in creating a new ministry with a deputy, principal secretary, secretaries and other civil servants to swell the already bloated public purse? It is an idiotic move by an incompetent and clueless president.
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  • Whatever 9 years ago

    I am really happy. Kwabena Donkor should implement his vision in the energy sector. If he does that, The whole energy situation in Ghana will change. He should take control over that sector push through his vision. Please do ...
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  • HUMANISM 9 years ago

    Ghana is a very small country with a population under 30 Million humans.
    We have over 500 Govt. ministers, deputy ministers, presidential staffers and vice-presidential staffers. This number is higher than officials in any ...
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  • ali, 9 years ago

    The energy minister should rather be sacked and replaced with a competent person. When I hear him speaking, I only see an incompetent person who doesn't know what he's doing. We need experience personnel to manage the minist ...
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  • Uncle Pee 9 years ago

    A new ministry will not help the power crisis. What we need is a new responsible and visionary leader who can come up with sensible solutions!

  • Tiago 9 years ago

    Wasn't Dr Kwabena Donkor sacked by President Mills for corruption and incompeteny at TOR?

  • y bw 9 years ago

    Thank. You. Mr. Mahama