News:
March 4, 2025
The Minority in its ‘True State of the Nation Address’ at a press conference on Monday has debunked President John Dramani Mahama’s claim that he solved the power crisis (Dumsor) before leaving power in January 2017.
“Mr. President, you did not fix “dumsor” as you claimed in your address. Your record on “dumsor” is abysmal, unlike your predecessor Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who kept the lights on.”
According to the Minority, the government’s handling of the power situation has increased uncertainty about economic growth prospects this year, stating that the promises by the President in his address to the nation to fix the current “dumsor” cannot be different from those he made during the four years of “dumsor” endured by Ghanaians between the end of 2011 and 2016.
They said the current erratic power supply attest to the return of ‘dumsor’ and Ghanaians are anxious and full of fear about the potential devastation this could cause for them and their businesses, especially small businesses. Many people and businesses have already felt the pinch and the pain of living with the current ‘dumsor’. “We have also seen the return of electric generating sets in shops, clinics and at social events.”
The Minority has thus called on the government to release a timetable for easy planning by businesses.
“To ameliorate the impact of these erratic power supplies, we the Mighty Minority call on the government to publish a load shedding timetable to help people and businesses plan effectively to offset some of the losses the economy is currently suffering from.”
Ghanamps.com