Former National Lottery Authority (NLA) boss and leading NPP figure, Sammi Awuku, has taken to Facebook to express outrage over what he describes as a crushing wave of taxes and utility price hikes under the current Mahama-led NDC administration.
Reacting to the implementation of the new fuel tax, officially known as the Energy Sector Levy (Amendment) Act, 2025 - or the "Dumsor Levy" - Awuku minced no words. "A day of reckoning is here," he declared. "In May 2025, electricity tariffs went up by 14.75% and water by 4.02%.
Today, July 16, we've been slapped with another 2.45% hike in electricity.
That's a total of 17.2% in less than three months." Comparing this to the previous NPP government, Awuku noted that "all of 2024 saw less than an 11% increase and even had a 6.65% reduction for lifeline users in the first quarter." He was even more scathing about the newly rolled-out fuel levy. "As if that's not enough, here comes the D-Levy. "Call it the Death Levy, Demolition Levy, Dumsor Levy or just plain Disrespect - it fits," he wrote, expressing clear disapproval of the GHC1 tax per litre of fuel now imposed on all Ghanaians.
