Former President John Dramani Mahama says the energy crisis that hit Ghana between 2012 and 2016 – popularly referred to as ‘dumsor’ – was solved by his administration, not the current government.
He is therefore telling the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop deceiving Ghanaians that the Akufo-Addo-led government resolved the crisis.
Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Adentan Constituency as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region, Mr Mahama described as false claims by NPP officials that they solved dumsor.
He explained that every single additional generation capacity of electricity currently in Ghana, including Ameri power and KarPower plants, was put in place by the NDC administration.
“But today some people are trying to take the credit for solving ‘dumsor’ when they haven’t added a single megawatt of electricity to Ghana’s power generation,” he said.
According to Mr Mahama, it was the work done by his administration in the energy sector that made him to declare in 2016 that Ghana will become a net exporter of electricity.
He therefore wondered why President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would make similar announcement and claim the credit for solving the energy crisis.
He said the NDC administration also stabilised the economy after fixing the energy crisis.
The former president was hopeful that the NDC will return to power in 2020 and urged members of the party to unite and work hard for victory.
He also committed himself to working hard to reduce the high cost of living in the country as well as provide jobs, when elected in the next elections.
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Mahamah stopped dumsor. He did it exactly. N. P. P is incompetent as they their people know for sure. Fake N.P P
WHEN WILL YOU STOP DECEIVING YOURSELF? YOU BROUGHT IN THE GENERATING PLANTS AND WHY COULDN'T YOU GIVE US LIGHT? DR. BAWUMIAH TOLD YOU THAT OUR PROBLEM WAS MONEY TO FUEL THE PLANTS. BECAUSE THESE MONIES WERE SHARED AMONG YOURSELVES THESE PLANTS WERE SITTING DOWN IDLE. THE COMPETENT NPP BROUGHT THESE PLANTS TO LIFE. YOUR INTEREST WAS TO CREAT LOOT AND SHARE!
Mr Mahama, please don't think we all have short memory as you said when you were in power. John Jinapor even in the early part of 2017 when NPP assumed power indicated that they should not think dumsor was over and that it was going to worsen under their regime. You can google this since he even granted interviews on that pronouncement on Citifm and joyfm. Where lies your honesty and credibility Mr former president?
mahama never solved dumsor they left power and dumsor behind and even started blaming the NPP for power outages. read Haruna Iddrisu address in parliament on 1st march 2017 when he attempted to change the term dumsor to a severe one called presor''. straggling for Recognition when you have been a loser is a mark of desperation. its not all of us who have short memories
Who is listening to this incompetent ford bribe taker....? This Mahama guy will never come back to power in Ghana.......
Mahama is Desperate ooooootum.
So Mr.Mahama if you solve it why did sensible Ghanaians give you a Kick Out from gov't. Massa stop trying you are indeed a desperate person .
John Mahama is a Bloody 1iar.
Mahama stop telling 1ies, 1ies took you and your Incompetent party NDC into opposition and you people have not learnt a lesson from it. NDC will forever be in opposition till John Mahama and his Ndc stop their 1ies.
You and your John mahama are in the start of Incompetence, so am not surprise at all. First of all, when the Npp were in Opposition they kept saying Ghana does not need any extra Power or Energy to solve the Dumsor problem which was going on under the John mahama and his Incompetent NDC gov't. The Npp kept saying the power crisis was becos of the NON-PAYMENT of Energy Power which was supply to the Gov't of the NDC which they refused to pay suppliers like the VRA, Bue Dame, Sonon Asogli Plant and some other private power producers which was the cause of the Dumsor and if they the Npp took over they will pay all those debts to make sure that Ghanaians will get out of the Dumosr which the NDC did introduced to our system . True to their words the NPP have solved the Dumsor and have even gone ahead to reduce the prices of Electricity tariffs to 17% and 38% . It is only a novice like you Farak and some NDC mischievous that will believe what TIO is saying.