The vice president of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has jabbed naysayers who said Ghana couldn’t deploy electric buses.
According to Dr. Bawumia, the naysayers as usual said it was not possible when they made the announcement. Still, they insisted that if other countries could deploy electric buses to make life easier for their citizens, why not Ghana?
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on November 27, 2024, unveiled the country’s first fleet of battery-electric buses.
In a social media post on X, Dr. Bawumia wrote, “The introduction of the electric buses, fulfills our promise to introduce new measures to significantly cut down the cost of public transportation, which is part of our broader vision to bring down the cost of living”.
“With the new buses powered through charging its electric system, and not through fuel, its operational cost will be reduced significantly, thus, also reducing the cost of public transport by 40% to 50%”, he wrote on X.
The vice president also asserted that the new era is not only for government buses, but it also presents an opportunity for private-owned bus and trotro services, for cheaper operational cost, when we fully roll out the program with electric charging spots across various places in Accra cities.
He further wrote, “With a mindset of possibility, we will, together, make many things possible and transform our country”.
See his post below:
Earlier today, I joined dignitaries and stakeholders in the transport sector, in Accra, to usher Ghana into a new era for public transportation, with the commissioning of Electric Buses for Public Transport.
The introduction of the electric buses, fulfills our promise to… pic.twitter.com/lQG3jsRtT2
— Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) November 27, 2024
