[ 2016-10-26 ]

Oil and Gas sector: Parties make 28 promises
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy(ACEP) has
revealed three major political parties in this
year’s elections – the National Democratic
Congress (NDC), the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and
the Convention People’s Party (CPP) – made a
total of 27 manifesto promises in the power sector
and 28 policy promises in the oil and gas sector.

ACEP disclosed this in an analysis of the
manifestos of the three parties as part of its
citizens’ energy manifesto campaign.

ACEP, in a report dubbed the energy manifesto
monitor, disclosed that the opposition NPP made
more policy and programme promises on power with
18 as against the NDC’s 15 while CPP presented
12 policy options.

It also revealed that both CPP and NPP made more
promises in oil and gas than the NDC.

Speaking at the launch of Citizens’ Energy
Manifesto Monitor in Accra, Dr Amin Adam,
Executive Director of ACEP, said: “As far as oil
and gas sector is concerned, for the 28 different
policies the NDC promised 12 while the NPP and CPP
each promised 17. When it comes to the power
sector, out of the 27, this time it is the reverse
– the CPP promised 12, the NPP 18 and the NDC
15. But if you go through all these policies, 28
policies for the oil and gas sector, we see more
differences between the parties than we see
agreement between them. In other words, they have
unique policies which do not cut across the
policies of other parties but when it comes to the
power sector, we see more consensuses. For
instance, the NPP and the NDC agreed on 10
policies that they will do and so we see more
consensus between the parties, but why not? The
oil and gas sector is new, some of the parties are
even yet to appreciate what the oil sector
means”.

According to Dr Adam, the main objective for
tracking the energy manifestos of the various
political parties is to help better inform the
electorate.

“We wanted to showcase that elections in Ghana
can be issue-based and not based on name calling
and insults and so to that extent we decided to
focus on the energy sector and explain the energy
sector to Ghanaians so they can interrogate the
manifesto promises the parties are going to make
so far as the sector is concerned and that can
help us make the election issue-based…” he
stated.

Source - kessbenonline

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