Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has once again criticised former President John Mahama for the erratic power outages that occurred during his administration.
He jokingly referred to the phenomenon at the time as 'dum dum', a play on the local term for power outages, known as 'dumsor'.
This criticism arises amid a resurgence in electricity supply problems, which has become a cause of concern among Ghanaians.
This issue came up during Parliament's Government Assurance Committee sitting on May 3, 2024.
As part of his response, the Minister responded that "we have gone past the era where we have 72 to 96 days of lights out and six hours of light on. We are the era of "dum sie sie" which is profoundly different from dumsor."
He explained that during former President John Mahama's tenure, one major characteristic was erratic power supply, but this duration the case was different.
"Dumsor as inflicted on Ghanaians has only happened as characterised His Excellency John Dramani Mahama’s governance.
"He is the only President on record that for four years that he reigned, for four years that he ruled, for four years that he governed dum dum dum,” he added.
Addressing the committee members, Dr Opoku Prempeh insisted that the erratic power supply the country was experiencing was not "dumsor" but "dum sie sie."
According to him, Mr Mahama's version was far more erratic because there was inadequate power to keep the lights on consistently.
However, "dum sie sie" implies that the lights go off so that maintenance work and other activities within the energy sector can be carried out.
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