Investigate the cost of moving AMERI power plant to Kumasi – Abu Siddique to journalists

A policy analyst, Siddique Abubakar Suleiman, has charged journalists to urgently launch investigations into the cost of transporting the AMERI plant from Takoradi to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

He is of the view that spending $36 million on the power plant is expensive and demands a probe in the spirit of accountability.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, commissioned the first phase of the Kumasi 1 Thermal Power Plant (K1TPP), also known as AMERI, at Anwomaso in the Oforikrom Municipality.

It is emerging that the cost of relocating the power plant cost the taxpayer about $36 million.

Reacting to the development, Siddique argued that the plant was sent to Kumasi to attract voters for the NPP after “neglecting the people for too long” and stressed that the “deceit” would not work.

Despite all the loans the government has taken, they could not procure a power plant for the Ashanti Region,” he told Oheneba on Battle Ground on Power FM.

Speaking on the cost of transporting the parts of the power plant, Siddique stated, “$36 million for moving a plant from Takoradi to Kumasi?