The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has linked the recent power outages in Ghana, popularly called "dumsor," to the mismanagement of the country's power-generating assets and the use of the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) as collateral.
According to John Mahama, the government's decision to use the proceeds from the Energy Sector Levy as collateral has contributed to the resurgence of power outages.
He expressed concern regarding the inconsistent power supply's impact on businesses and households, emphasizing the challenges it poses for effective planning.
"The country has been plunged into darkness. Mismanagement of our generating assets and collateralization of the ESLA, which was meant to provide the resources to finance current and legacy debt, has led us back into the doom zone.
"The best government can do is to eat humble pie, take responsibility for the problem, and work to address it. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I'm aware that businesses and households cannot plan because of the erratic power situation," citinewsroom.com quoted the former president.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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As for Mahama, he was able to solve dumsor in the long run, for Ghana to even have excess power to sell to neighbouring countries. Today, Nana Addo has ordered the selling of Mahama's excess power to neighbouring countries to cease. This shows Mahama is a practical leader. Nana Addo and Bawumia on the other hand, have only been good at castigating Mahama and wandering in the realms of talking big abstract things which they end up doing the opposite. They have not added 1 MB of energy to the national grid, yet they have managed to incompetently destroyed the stable supply that we had, these are the true dumsor kings.
Ah who’s speaking. Is that John Mahama. Mahama and NDC are very funny. Mahama you have mouth to speak about Dumso in Ghana. Dumso president like you. This is shame. We know you as a dumso president. Give as a break. You will lose 2024 election.