‘Dumsor’: Stop the deceit and be truthful to Ghanaians – Omane Boamah to Akufo-Addo

Mahamudu Bawumia administration must be truthful to Ghanaians over the prevailing power crisis also known as dumsor.

This follows the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) saying that the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) attribution of power outages during peak hours to transformer faults is inaccurate.

The Commission in March requested directed the ECG to furnish with it data relating to all transformers and power outages that had occurred in the country.

Commenting on the development in a Facebook post on Sunday, the former Minister for Communication questioned why former President John Mahama before leaving office had provided enough power yet Ghanaians would have to sleep in the dark.

“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?” Dr.

He continued: “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?