How Can Hon. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh Leave A Legacy As Ghana's Best Ever Energy Minister?

How can Hon. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh leave a legacy as Ghana's best ever energy minister?  As we face possible melt-down of our national economy, the question we ought to be pondering over as a people is: Does cutting-edge emission-free clean power technology, exist, today, which could provide reliable electricity, at rates cheaper than that from hydro-dams, and nuclear power plants?

Yes, is the short answer. And the inventor is a Ghanaian - merchant marine chief engineer, Raphael Afordoanyi. If our ruling-élites were as open to new ideas as the current leadership of the United Arab Emirates  (UAE), are, by now, that transformative game-changing technology, would have been quickly patented globally,  by the state, for the inventor, as a public private partnership (PPP), to commercialise it globally.

And a new source of unimaginable wealth would suddenly be available to the UAE, as provider of cheap off-grid emission-free clean power technology, to power the whole world, and open a new path to prosperity for all of humankind - as nations worldwide switch to the new technology to power their economies. 

If Hon. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh enables  Ghana to take advantage of Raphael Afordoanyi's game-changing off-grid  emmission-free clean power system, it will  enable Ghanaian society to be transformed into a prosperous one, in which both individuals and businesses are freed from paying taxes, permanently.

And, instead of the current economic crisis,  the cash-strapped and highly-indebted state of Ghana, would rather be in the happy situation of having more than enough money, from a new sovereign wealth fund, into which royalty-cash from its stake in the new technology would be deposited. 

Would such a fund not enable the government of Ghana to provide interest-free long-term loans to all businesses that need them, fund new green cities to replace slums nationwide, build new world-class pandemic-resilient healthcare facilities, for every district in Ghana, and fund free education from kindergarten to tertiary level, as well as provide monthly universal allowances, for all needy Ghanaian families, build new railway lines and  dual carriage concrete motorways, linking all the regional capitals to Accra, for example? 

Sadly, the cultural-impediment that prevents so many Ghanaians from even considering such possibilities,  is preventing the adoption of this new technology. Yet, it could do for today's Ghana, what cocoa did to underpin Ghana's initial period of prosperity as a newly independent African nation-state. 

Those amoral and ruinous independent power purchase agreements currently sucking the very lifeblood out of our country, are so patently unfair, that by definition, they could only have been procured by bribing corrupt state officials. 

No independent power producer with an ethical management ethos, and a social conscience, operating globally with a business model underpinned by corporate good governance principles, would have even considered,  let alone entered into such an agreement, with a heavily-indebted African nation,  in which millions struggle daily to survive. Let us end our reliance on their unreliable and expensive power, produced by a fossil-fuel powered industry, now more or less doomed and near to becoming obsolete. 

With the greatest respect, Hon. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh ought to consult Raphael Afordoanyi about securing his new off-grid emission-free clean-power technology, to power Ghana's prosperity.  It can start with powering VALCO to full-capacity-production-levels. It will enable him leave a lasting legacy as Ghana's best ever energy minister. 

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