Ebenezer Hammah, CEO of McHammah Engineering Company Limited
Engineer Ebenezer Hammah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of McHammah Engineering Company Limited, has reiterated his commitment to support young talented engineers by providing technical and financial support to enhance inventions.
He narrated that such individuals need to practice what they have learnt in school and develop their God-given talent to be able to efficiently come up with their inventions or improve them.
He noted that this initiative would help build a workforce that would address Ghana’s challenges in the future, saying, engineers and technologists are capable of transforming the economy, hence, the need to support the Ghanaian creativity.
Engineer Hammah made these remarks during a tour of a locally manufactured generator in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital.
The generator, manufactured by two brothers; Kwasi Ansah and Kojo Ansah, uses fermented cassava and other organic materials to produce electricity, which enables people to charge their phones, and power radio sets and other electronic gadgets such as fans, bulbs/lamps.
Engineer Hammah stated that currently, the company has also supported Frank Darko, the Ghanaian water bike inventor the water; to improve upon it for search and rescue operations, adding that “we are trying to liaise with NADMO to use it during floods”.
Engineer Hammah, who was leading a team of engineers on the tour, noted that newly produced generator which requires no fuel could power a four-bedroom apartment and could last for two years before servicing, and this would help in national grid electrification.
“We are trying to scale it up, and now we have been able to develop it and all the necessary calculations have been made, so we can go into megawatts”, he added.
Engineer Hammah pointed out that the employment aspect of this renewable energy was also numerous.
The CEO of McHammah Engineering, who further explained that farmers would get jobs since cassava is being used as a raw material, added that “there would also be jobs for engineers and electricians.
In an interview, James Kojo Ansah, one of the brothers who invented the generators, said their practice began since childhood and had lots of inventions however due to lack of support there was no advancement.
He said after their Basic Education Certificate Examination, they could not further their education due to financial constraints and came up with the initiative in 2018, in response to Ghana’s need for alternative source of energy.
Mr Ansah, who expressed gratitude to McHammah Engineering for its support, noted that their invention would help in the rural electrification project.
He said they lived in one such community and, therefore, recognized the importance of electricity in boosting economic activities.
