Director of Elections of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo says former President John Dramani Mahama would have ended the 'dumsor' crises confronting the economy if Ghanaians hadn't voted his government out of power.
According to him, the previous government made several interventions to improve the energy sector before exiting office.
Mr. Ofosu Ampofo noted that 'dumsor' was expected to come to an end by the second term of the Mahama government.
He told host Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' that "In our energy sector policy, it was expected that by the end of (if we had won power) the four-year period, Ghana would have been completely self-sufficient in energy that we could have even become a net exporter of energy to other neighbouring countries. I can say that to all intents and purposes, before the government (Mahama government) left, as for generation capacity; we could generate enough to meet the demands of the country . . . As at the time that we were leaving office, we were not experiencing dumsor . . . Under NDC, we did a lot, invested a lot in generation.”
He therefore called on the current administration to find a lasting solution to the energy problems since that was a major objective for their victory in last year's elections.
Also touching on the energy situation in the country, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper expressed displeasure with the criticisms against the ruling government regarding the sector.
He stated that the members of the opposition NDC seems not to have simmered down after their defeat.
To him, their tone of analysis of the situation smacks of pain and so they speak with aggression particularly with the energy situation.
Mr. Baako wondered how the opposition party would expect the current administration to resolve the challenges within just two months after elected into office.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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What prevented him from solving the problem for the past eight years that NDC was in power. Pse don't disturb our ears with your lies. U people think Ghanaians are excuse me to say ***barred word***. Look, Nana Addo will ensure that this problem is fixed once and for all. Just as u people were saying Nana Addo will never be president of Ghana but now he is, So this dumsor will be total eradicated under his presidency. Just 3 months in opposition and NDC is feeling the heat. Then u are going to suffer bcos you will be in opposition for a long time. Do u thnk when Mahama supervised the indiscipline NDC serial callers to insult Pastors, Elders and who ever talks against him ie Mugabe Maase and his cohorts. When those people have insulted and threatened the lives of our respected Judges and were sent to prison, Mahatma ensured that they were pardoned opening the lee way for anybody to insult our elders and go scot free. God has punished you. Prepare bcos u hv not seen any thing else. Nana Addo is gradually settling down and when he is fully settled you will see wonders. It is even a shame to start attacking NPP for anything bcos if NDC have managed things properly we would not have had the Dumsor we a\re experiencing now. Keep Quite
These NDC people are still insulting the intelligence of Ghanaians with their pronouncements. ***barred word***, NDC and let us see what NPP will do to your MISMANAGEMENT!
Master stop insulting Ghanaian. Have a little respect for us. I do not know your level of education. We have well educated Ghanaians around who you cannot deceived. Since they do not talk means you are wiser than them. You have 8 years to solve this problem but what happened. My advice to Nana Ado is to retrieve all stolen monies from you people and invest in the energy sector. If he can do this alone for Ghanaian, we shall be happy. People are angry the way monies are misappropriated and cars grab left right center by these NDC people. Nana do not be like Ex- president Kuffour who shielded these people for them to turn round to use propaganda to deceive Ghanaians and eroded all his achievements.
Massa; What a load of Bull........Sheet !!!!!; today these NDC vultures have started fly around again thinking they smell Nana Addo's carcass for dinner ; when did Nana take over from this Kriminal gang of thiffs call the NDC and the question is did they solve the 'DUMSOR ' problem because all they did was to full and lie to Ghanaians and just put a plaster on the problem ; they did not FIX the problem ; it was a temporary measure to full people Jon Mahama had no intention of solving the problem ; his idea was to fleece Ghanaians importing and creaming off the excess contract prices.
Woulda coulda shoulda! GTFOHWTBS!!!
how many years did he need to revive it? what use was the bus branding to Ghanaians. couldn't he use that money to start fixing it? I sometimes wonder if he and the rest of the NDC has got brains mpo... mtccheeew