The Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has defended former President John Dramani Mahama against accusations regarding the power crisis, commonly referred to as "Dumsor."
Mr Gyamfi asserted that the crisis is not solely attributable to Mahama but rather represents a collective failure of past governments.
He highlighted Mr Mahama's proactive efforts to address the issue by making significant investments in the power sector.
Speaking in an interview with Citi TV on Tuesday, March 19, Gyamfi criticised the current NPP government for failing to build upon Mahama's investments.
Consequently, he placed blame for the recent power outages experienced in many parts of the country squarely on the Akufo-Addo government.
“Dumsor was not a creation of H.E Mahama and the NDC. Even before 2001, Ghana had recorded ‘dumsor’ in 1984, 1988, 1989 you recall. The infamous decision by President J.A Kufuor [former] to send pastors to Akosombo to pray in 2007 for rains to fall.”
“We recorded ‘dumsor’ at the end of former presidents J.J. Rawlings and Kufuor terms. That problem was largely because successive governments had failed to make significant investments in increasing generation. In consonance with increasing demand.”
“If you look at where our generational capacity ought to have been in 2012, we were there as a country and that a collective failure we are all sharing. Even though this problem was an inherited problem, we didn’t go about making flimsy excuses. Mahama said he was the president the bucks stops with him. He took full responsibilities and promised to fix it.”
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