President -Elect John Dramani Mahama is calling for a deeper Ghana – United States (US) bilateral relations in his quest to find lasting antidotes to the quagmire the country finds itself in.
According to him at this critical time as the economy on all fronts is on its knees it requires a closer relation to finding solutions to the country’s difficult economic and energy challenges.
At courtesy call on him by the US ambassador to Ghana H.E Harriet Thompson, Mr Mahama underscored the need of the two countries to revisit the once enviable relation between the US and the erstwhile Mahama administration and the need to deepen it at such critical life of the country.
The US, UK, China , Algerian, World Bank and IMF are amongst the first countries and organizations to extend a congratulations message and goodwill to Mr. Mahama for his re-election after leaving office in 2016.
A peace loving John Mahama, was particularly worried about the security threats in the sub region and why the US will be needed to tackle it.
“On the security front, we know what the issues in our sub-region are and the US has been a longstanding partner in terms of improving our resilience when it comes to security matters and so we look to continue the cooperation in that space,” he intimated
Mr Mahama has vowed to investigate the botched Power Distribution Service agreement also called for the US to help in dealing with the energy sector crisis
“We are willing to continue to deepen this relationship. It is more critical now than before because of what Ghana is going through, both in terms of economy and finances but more importantly because of the energy sector”
Adding that “Knowing the comparative advantage, technology and knowledge the US has, we want to work closely to see how we can resolve some of the issues in that sector. Of course we worked on the MCC together and it made Ghana’s electricity generation more resilient than it was before the MCC,” he stated
