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Promote alternative energy sources -
Frimpong-Boateng
Takoradi, March 31, GNA - Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng,
Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital,
has stressed the need for the development of alternative
energy sources to safeguard the current crisis that the
country is going through.
He called for the beginning of an aggressive programme to
begin the manufacture and use of solar panels for domestic
use to reduce the burden on the national electricity grid.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng was delivering the third of a series
of lectures organised by the Western Regional Coordinating
Council (RCC) as part of the activities marking the "Ghana
at 50" celebrations at Takoradi on Thursday.
He said that apart from solar, geothermal, micro dams, wind
energy, biogas and Ocean Thermal Energy Converter (OTEC) as
well as Bio7-diesel should be promoted throughout the
country to curtail the annual energy crisis.
The country's engineers must develop simple technologies to
facilitate the "day-to-day" lives of the people, he said.
To facilitate this, Prof Frimpong-Boateng stressed the need
for the establishment a well-equipped Technical University
to support the production of tools.
All districts must also have well-equipped polytechnics with
the requisite machinery to manufacture, re-design and mould
technologies appropriate to the Ghanaian environment.
He expressed regrets that while the advanced countries were
still developing and using alternative energy sources
African countries were still relying on hydro-electric dams.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng charged Ghanaians to "venture" into
helping to solve the country's problems.
He noted that even though the Western Region was endowed
with natural resources, it lacked the requisite
infrastructure.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng urged the chiefs, churches,
individuals as well as chief executives to play their roles
to improve conditions in the region.
The inhabitants of the Western Region must "think alike" and
develop the region "together," Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said
urged Ghanaians to acquire "the skills and know how" that
would enable them to transform their situation.
Mr. Philip K. Nkrumah, Shama-Ahanta-East Metropolitan Chief
Executive, stressed the determination of the various
district, municipal and metropolitan assemblies to do their
best to ensure national development.
GNA
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