The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) director of elections and information technology, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, attacked the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration for allegedly misrepresenting the dumsor, or blackouts, to the people of Ghana.
Dr. Boamah wrote on social media on Sunday, “Your deceitful and incompetent Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government cannot even be truthful about Dumsor!” addressing Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Energy Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh.
He drew attention to the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission’s (PURC) clarification that power outages are not primarily a result of transformers. Dr. Boamah questioned the NPP government’s choice to cause power outages for Ghanaians, pointing out that the former NDC government under John Mahama had made sure there were enough power plants available.
“PURC says transformers are not the cause of the dumsor Ghanaians are confronted with. What justification can your NPP government offer Ghanaians for plunging Ghana into Dumsor when John Dramani Mahama provided enough power generation plants including the Ameri thermal plant which you have recently re-located to Kumasi and re-named?
“And if I may add should Ghanaians not be ‘whipping and slapping’ your government for lying about paying for excess power and blaming Mahama for it??? Where is the excess power? Excess power indeed! Or this Dumsor is power diabetes: where sugar/power is abundant but homes and businesses are lacking power?Liars!!!!” he stated.
