The Minority in Parliament has criticised the government's indefinite suspension of the controversial Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Act, 2025, also known as the 'Dumsor Levy', calling it a damning admission of failure, hypocrisy, and incompetence.
Minority Leader Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, in a statement on Saturday, June 14, described the eleventh-hour reversal as "a shameful retreat" that exposes "the fundamentally chaotic and inconsistent approach to economic governance" by the NDC administration. "This is not a policy review.
It is a complete retreat under pressure.
It is governance by panic and improvisation," he said. "You don't rush a law through Parliament only to suspend it days before implementation unless you've realised you never should have passed it in the first place." The Energy Sector Shortfall and Debt Repayment Levy, scheduled to take effect on June 16, was to impose additional taxes on petroleum products.
