NPP “is not salvation army”

…………………….. HONOURABLE KYEREMATTEN

The New Partiotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament(MP) for West Ayawaso Wuogon and a member of the NPP Communication Team Hon. Kyerematten has stated categorically that, “the New Patriotic Party(NPP) is not a Salvation Army” to save Ghanaians from their present difficulties brought about by the rationing of electricity to homes, businesses and offices, popularly termed “DUMSOR”.

He said the NPP as a political party is looking for opportunities to capture political power and therefore would do everything possible to take advantage of the present suffering of Ghanaians brought about by “DUMSOR”, and the predicament it presents to the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Government under President John Dramani Mahama in order to come to power.

The West Ayawaso Wuogon Member of Parliament(MP) made the statement yesterday, Wednesday February 19, 2015, on ‘Atinkafm 104.7’, an Accra based radio station, and monitored by this paper, when he was challenged by Mr. Eric Ametor-Quarmyne, a Member of the Government Communication Team and Communications Consultant to the National Health Insurance Authority, to tell Ghanaians what the NPP’s solutions would have been to the present “DUMSOR” problem facing Ghanaians, due to the low level of water in the Akosombo and Bui hydroelectric dams as well as the breakdown of a number of thermal generation plants, some of which belong to private power producers including Tapco and Tico plants at Aboadze near Takoradi in the Western Region.

The panelists were discussing yesterday’s demonstration which was held in Accra, dubbed ‘won gbo’ or we are dying, organized by the NPP to draw the NDC Government’s attention to the suffering of Ghanaians, particularly small businesses such as carpenters, hairdressers, sachet water sellers, and fitters among many others, when Hon. Kyerematten unprompted made the statement during one of his submissions.

The Communications Consultant to the NHIA had vehemently refuted allegations peddled by Hon. Kyerematten and Mr. Adomako Berfi, both of the NPP Communications Team, that the Volta River Authority(VRA) and the Government were broke and therefore unable to purchase light crude oil to operate thermal power generation plants in the country, saying, “that is the cause of the present “DUMSOR”.

Mr. Ametor-Quarmyne strongly refuted their claims emphasizing that no amount of light crude oil could enable turbines designed to operate on the flow of water to operate, neither would it make a broken down machine to function as was being alleged by the two NPP Communicators.

Confirming his statement to the amazement of the host of the programme, Hon. Kyerematten reiterated, “We are a political party looking for opportunities to come to power, we are not here to help the NDC to rule, ours is to capture political power. Yes the NPP is not a Salvation Army”.