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John Jinapor, former Deputy Power Minister and MP for Yapei/Kasawgu constituency, has asked Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to credit where it is due by acknowledging the efforts of the previous Mahama regime in resolving the 'dumsor' crisis in the country before President Nana Akufo-Addo took up the reins of government.
He also asserted that there was higher and better economic growth under the leadership of John Dramani Mahama.
Bawumia's Account On Mahama Economy
Speaking to journalists at the Jubilee House on Monday, May 5, 2020, Dr. Bawumia reminded the former President that he superintended over a weak economy between the years 2012 and 2016.
The Vice President slammed Mr. Mahama for failing to mitigate the economic crises his own administration created for the Ghanaian populace.
This was after the latter cynically questioned the much-touted robustness of the Ghanaian economy, describing it as being in an ICU just a month into the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic on the operations of local businesses.
“If you want to test the robustness of an economy, you test it in a time of crises. Thankfully, we have had two crises. Under the NDC, it was an internally-generated crisis, which was dumsor. Under the Presidency of Nana Akufo-Addo, there has been an externally generated crisis, which has been the global Coronavirus pandemic.”
“I just want you to ask yourself, how have these two crises been managed? The dumsor crisis which crippled this economy for four years. What were the mitigating measures offered to businesses and individuals during the dumsor, an internally generated crisis?” the Vice President questioned.
He further stated; “We saw that even during dumsor, electricity prices were being increased, fuel prices were being increased, teacher trainee allowances were being cancelled, nursing trainee training allowances were being cancelled. All of that was happening during that particular crisis.”
“You look at the Coronavirus crisis and you look at the difference in terms of what has happened. The President has reduced electricity prices and has made it free for lifeline consumers. He has given free water to all Ghanaians for three months, has made sure that there is a stimulus package of 600 million Ghana Cedis for businesses and we have seen domestic production of PPEs (personal protective equipment) for our health workers locally.”
John Jinapor's Rebuttal
But to John Jinapor, Ex-President John Mahama is a better driver of the economy than President Akufo-Addo.
He wondered how the government could subsidize electricity bills in these trying times of COVID-19 if not for the interventions that the Mahama administration made to resolve the energy crises.
Making his submissions on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', he maintained strongly that President Akufo-Addo didn't inherit a 'dumsor' economy from the Mahama administration, adding that the current government is enjoying the fruits of the good works of its predecessor.
The Yapei/Kusawgu MP therefore challenged the Vice President to compare the performance of the current administration and erstwhile Mahama government, with particular emphasis on the energy sector.
"If the NPP say we didn't resolve it, tell us when you resolved dumsor. At least that should be settled. If you say when you took over, there was still dumsor; are we saying we still have dumsor and if it's resolved too, tell us the period you resolved it," he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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THIS JINAPOR MAN KNOWS NO SHAME. OKAY GRANTED THAT dumsor WAS SOLVED BEFORE NPP CAME TO POWER. THE QUESTION POSED IS :, 1. Dumsor was an internally self created CRISIS spanning 4yrs. How did Mahama and Jinapor administration mitigated the SUFFERINGS OF THE CITIZENRY during these period? 2. Based on the way this current administration braced up to the challenges posed by this global pandemic and the mitigating social and economic interventions to the people and businesses, WHO SHOULD GHANAIANS ENTRUST A CRISIS HIT GHANA TO FOR GOVERNANCE OR MANAGEMENT? CLEARLY GHANAIANS CANNOT ENTRUST THE NATION'S GOVERNANCE INTO THE HANDS OF MAHAMA AND THE NDC. What a Jons!
Ghanaweb, please stop referring to John Jinapor as JJ. There is ONLY ONE JJ in Ghana. You can call him JOJI if you like, but NOT JJ. JJ is a registered trade mark.
JJ, you shouldn't engage in a banter with barwumia. Even a class one pupil knows that John Mahama ended the dumsor before he left office. There was no way npp could have ended dumsor assuming office in early 2017. John Mahama brought Karpower that same people wear saying they will terminate the contract when they came to power. Why didn't they terminate the contract and why didn't they send the Karpower back to Turkey. How can John mahama bring all these plants to increase the power capacity and you come and claim you solved dumsor. All nana addo should do is to shut down all the additional plants that John mahama brought, and just use the only ones that were there before John mahama left office, and we will see whether dumsor was solved by barwumia.
Well for me all I know is we are NOT going to fly on AIRBUS with an INCOMPETENT PILOT through DUMSO to IMF anymore when little BABIES 👶 WITH SHARP TEETH 🦷 are on board and land us on WOYOMEY’S backyard. I know there could be FORD EXPEDITION to take us by land but we would have preferred 🚌 BRANDING driven by ATIVOR in the middle of BERKO POWER BRIBERY CRISIS which again indicates GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL 1 so I decree like the Jews said NEVER AGAIN TO NDC. NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU NDC YAAMUTU
This John knows no shame. I cant believe he will attempt to re tell a story every Ghanaian knows so well. what has come of him? I wonder . he seems so much full of himself reasoning have left him.
It is not up to Jinapor to tell Ghanaians which Administration solved the Dumsor-crisis, for Ghanaians to appreciate it. Indeed, it was not very long ago that dumsor was here. The memories of Ghanaians are fresh enough to capture all its' ramifications and how the situation improved. The Buga Buga propaganda of Jinapor is not well-founded. But it is very clear, that NDC ist desperately trying hard to raise a platform, to attack the integrity of the able Vice President Bawumia, as in the face of many Ghanaians, is very intact.
He started again he want to be heard find the way they will chop Ghana's money when they come to power. When the American CIA was chasing the they plan to dubbed Ghana energy crises he was sooooo quite . Now today everything is silent he has started again with insult and lies.
What is this Jinapor saying? Is he telling us that the NDC government solved the dum-so menace before the left office. Lord have mercy