Solar Power for the Poor in USA: Not For Prof. Allotey's Ghana!

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• Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

  I do not believe the lack of development or economic progress in Ghana can be laid at the feet of one or a few while the rest of the people claiming to be Ghanaians shirk their individual civic responsibilities. The solar ene ...
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  I do not believe the lack of development or economic progress in Ghana can be laid at the feet of one or a few while the rest of the people claiming to be Ghanaians shirk their individual civic responsibilities. The solar energy industry was in its drawing phase at the time of Nkrumah's presidency but Ghana has had dumsor since the CPP era. Ghana's rich, politically connected and the traveled bunch choose to see things they deem important and thus while most see the growth of solar energy in civilized, industrialized nations they visit, work or claim citizenship continue to rely on oil or gas powered backup generators to lighten up their homes in Ghana. If Ghana is in the dark most hours in a given day because we choose to heed to some intellectually bankrupt university professor Allotey then we deserve no better than the breed of government and media leadership we've got. How can we ever move forward as a nation if we continue to have educated idiots of Ghanaian birth continue to fight over Nkrumahism and the failed ideals of the Busia-Danquah ideology unto this day? Did people not live through Nkrumah's leadership and a Busia led government? We're stuck because we choose to be led just so we do not have to use individual thinking processes.

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Abeeku Mensah,
  We believe that the statement "Ghana has had dumsor since the CPP era" is akin to saying, "There was dumsor in the Gold Coast".
  
  It is not factually accurate with respect to "Ghana". (Our last essay spoke ...
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  Abeeku Mensah,
  We believe that the statement "Ghana has had dumsor since the CPP era" is akin to saying, "There was dumsor in the Gold Coast".
  
  It is not factually accurate with respect to "Ghana". (Our last essay spoke to that specific point - "There Was 'No Dumsor' Under Kwame Nkrumah").
  
  Suffice to say that the power capacity left for "Ghana's future" during "the CPP era" allowed Ghana to thrive, despite failure by subsequent governments, among them the Kotoka/Nuke-Vietman-Ankrah/NLC junta and Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings, etc., to add capacity commensurate with population growth and need.
  
  Further, in the grand scheme of things, and in little things as well, leadership always matter.
  
  Point is, we are not of the type to brush the failures you speak of equally on all the people.
  
  Finally, we limited our critique of Professor Allotey to the narrow subject we discuss.
  
  We hope you see our latest essay as part of our continuing effort to promote "individual thinking processes" on matters important to Ghana.
  
  Greetings!

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• Pimpinese 8 years ago

  Mr Prof Lungu, you don't make sense whatsoever in criticizing Prof Emeritus Allotey. You do not adduce any evidence to counter his claims. The nearest you come to doing this is to state that the average whatever of US folks i ...
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  Mr Prof Lungu, you don't make sense whatsoever in criticizing Prof Emeritus Allotey. You do not adduce any evidence to counter his claims. The nearest you come to doing this is to state that the average whatever of US folks is $50 something thousand compared with $1.7 something thousand for Ghanaians, and that if the poor-rich US folks are deemed worthy of this because of their poverty, then the poor-poor Ghanaian doesn't need an argument to merit this because her misery surpasses that of the American.
  The US has more money to throw at many projects, including donations to poor-poor countries like Ghana. And if one of these projects is to provide solar energy for poor-rich Americans, it's because they have the wherewithal. You, Mr prof Lungu, do not show any evidence that Ghana has this largesse to give to its poor-poor citizens. The existential issue for the US with respect to solar energy provision is along term one- ensuring that the environment can sustain life in the distant future; that for Ghana is immediate, and Prof Emeritus Allotey is merely asking us to cut our coat according to our size. T

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Pimpinese,
  You must have missed the road!
  
  Where in this essay do we advance "largesse"?
  
  If we may, in this essay, we are not necessarily arguing for solar power for Ghana's poor, but rather, for "Prof. Allotey's Ghan ...
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  Pimpinese,
  You must have missed the road!
  
  Where in this essay do we advance "largesse"?
  
  If we may, in this essay, we are not necessarily arguing for solar power for Ghana's poor, but rather, for "Prof. Allotey's Ghana" and "towns of a certain size."
  
  Further, we offer a critique of the scope of the MCC contract, and the unreasonable constraints it puts on solar power in Ghana, given the limitations of existing capacity, as enumerated, and dramatic reduction in cost, etc.
  
  Near close to the equator as Ghana is located, "free sun technology" comes a lot more closer to cutting "our coat according to our size", than super capital intensive oil and gas that Ghana does not control on so many levels.
  
  Read the essay again, please!

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• HAZOR 8 years ago

  Prof Lungu,Your writing was very brillient that our criminal president who hate Ghana development and it progress and his dead goat character syndrome prefer jet fighters than electricity that will power our homes and industr ...
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  Prof Lungu,Your writing was very brillient that our criminal president who hate Ghana development and it progress and his dead goat character syndrome prefer jet fighters than electricity that will power our homes and industries.Our own KSM introduce Gideon Agyari a solar street light inventor to Mills Mahama administration to our street lights from the national grid and the money that was meant to use to extablish the solar street light factory to create jobs and develop market across Africa was use to sign deal with MCC.The president was talking Home Grown but turn around doing the opposite.Is our president Normal or just being very stupid with no thinking faculty.For God sake this is the most advance solar technology in the world and the idiot refuse to support it because it was black Ghanaian innovation.

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Hazor,
  Thanks for your comment!
  
  YOUR: "...The president was talking Home Grown but turn around doing the opposite..."
  
  WE SAY: Right on!
  
  The Government of Ghana ought to have a credible solar power initiative in the ...
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  Hazor,
  Thanks for your comment!
  
  YOUR: "...The president was talking Home Grown but turn around doing the opposite..."
  
  WE SAY: Right on!
  
  The Government of Ghana ought to have a credible solar power initiative in the mix of all power initiatives.
  
  We believe the MCC contract, again, with its limitations on solar power for just "pilot test", was an egregious shirking of responsibility.

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• francis kwarteng 8 years ago

  Prof. Lungu,
  
  I do appreciate the substance of your article. Very educative.
  
  The substance of your article evidently catches up with the substance of my article published the same say.
  
  Thanks for sharing sharing your ...
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  Prof. Lungu,
  
  I do appreciate the substance of your article. Very educative.
  
  The substance of your article evidently catches up with the substance of my article published the same say.
  
  Thanks for sharing sharing your insights with us.
  
  Have a great weekend.

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• Kofi kwarteng 8 years ago

  Oh prof Lungu so its a bad thing to resource the military.In this age of rebel fashion world your good english is meaningless to mother ghana.Do not hide behind Nkrumah for your own thing.

  Oh prof Lungu so its a bad thing to resource the military.In this age of rebel fashion world your good english is meaningless to mother ghana.Do not hide behind Nkrumah for your own thing.

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Kofi kwarteng,
  Thanks for your comment!
  
  We do not have anything against "resourcing" the military. The difference is how one prioritizes what must be funded, when, how, and why! What we see is a cascading series of spendi ...
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  Kofi kwarteng,
  Thanks for your comment!
  
  We do not have anything against "resourcing" the military. The difference is how one prioritizes what must be funded, when, how, and why! What we see is a cascading series of spending without clear objectives, while "bread and butter" matters suffer.
  
  No nation ever achieved any sort of victory in "rebel fashion world" with combat aircraft they do not produce and cannot service, and under under an economy infested by "Dum-Sor Bioyin" Syndrome (DSBS)!
  
  Greetings!

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