Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the Director of Elections and IT for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has spoken out against the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia-led government, alleging that they have been misleading Ghanaians regarding the intermittent power supply issue, commonly referred to as dumsor.
In a social media post addressed to Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Sunday, Dr Boamah stated, “Your deceitful and incompetent Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government cannot even be truthful about Dumsor!”
He highlighted that the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has clarified that the root cause of the power outages currently experienced by Ghanaians is not the transformers, contradicting the government’s stance.
Dr. Boamah raised questions about the reasoning behind the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s choice to subject Ghanaians to power outages, especially given that the previous NDC administration, led by John Mahama, had ensured the availability of an ample number of power generation plants.
“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.
Below is his full post on Facebook
STORY BY ; PORTIA AKU SHIKA GAFAH
