I took responsibility and fixed dumsor...according to former President John Dramani Mahama.
The former president was speaking in an interview on Ugandan-based NBS television has explained how he was able to deal with the power crisis that hit the country during his administration.
According to him, “We had the Akosombo Dam. We thought Akosombo will last forever” but “unfortunately, it didn’t”. So, we were consuming like 2,600 megawatts and our production was 2,300 megawatts, so, we had to go through a period of outages”
“What did I do? I took responsibility”, he indicated, adding “I didn’t blame previous governments...I said, yes, you call me Mr. Dumsor…I inherited this problem but I take responsibility because you voted me into power to take responsibility and fix things and, so, I said I’m going to fix this’, and, by 2015, I had added an additional almost 3,000 megawatts to Ghana’s generation.”
“I was actually accused of putting in an excess generation…more generation than we needed...Today, we are consuming 1000 megawatts more and, so, if I didn’t put in that excess generation, we probably would have started having an energy crisis again...(we are having) outages every day because the consumption has caught up with the amount of energy that is available and we are beginning to have problems,” Mr Mahama added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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This man is becoming a comedian.... liar. No one takes you serious any longer.
Ahhhhhh.... this man paaa. Do you listen to yourself when you speak?
Now, foolsoldiers claim to know our power problems more than former president who was first gentleman of the land. Why don’t you guys claim NPP solved it?? Thank you JM. You’re called names , you took responsibility and solved it. These same people have no shame in admitting
Liar. Ghana was not in need of any additional megawatts in order to stop dumsor. You spent all the money to the extent that you couldn’t buy gas to power the existing plants. Dumsor stopped at the end of 2017 so which one did you stop?
I met a Whiteman engineer in America, he mentioned to me his company was contracted to provide electricity to Ghana by the Ghana government but the government did not provide all the money needed for the project so the project could not complete. Why has succesive governments refused to fund projects to provide electricity for the people. Just provide the money to the whitemen to do the electricity power projects?
This man is totally confused. He has nothing to offer Ghanaians. People should ask him what magic is he coming to perform to turn the economy around for 1 term in office. Targeting to come and recoup all that he has lost for the time in opposition.
Stop lying Mr Mahama You did not fix any dumsor The problem was money that you owed Nigeria and so they cut off their gas. It took President Akuffo Addo to go to Nigeria and beg Bihari and made part payment to them with the remaining balance being paid in installment. That’s how come the started supplying Ghana with gas to function. Please stop throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians and the international community.