Mahama Deserved More Credit For Fixing Dumsor Before Leaving Office; Dr. Bawumia Is A Chronic Liar! —NDC Faithfuls Jab
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said that President Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress administration deserved no credit for solving the dumsor in the country.
Freeman Koryekpor 
Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has incurred the wrath of National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicators and activists including the part's faithfuls.
They pointed out that they were unhappy to hear from the news that Dr Bawumia made unguided and derogatory comment against former President John Dramani that the later doesn't deserve a credit for fixing the protracted intermittent power outages popularly knows in Akan palance as dumsor which means 'turn off and on.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said that President Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress administration deserved no credit for solving the dumsor in the country.
However, the NDC faithfuls set the records straight that President John Dramani Mahama has solved dumsor by adding far more electricity generation Capacity than Ghana needed and left a buffer with even surplus for export or industrialization.
"We are telling Dr Bawumia who branding himself as chronic liar who are bent of misleading the Ghanaian public that for the seek of the record former President Dramani Mahama and the NDC solved the power crisis that engulfed the nation before they were voted out in 2016 general elections," they stressed.
According to them, Dr Bawumia is well known for peddling falsehoods and an empty "economist" of our time, warning him to stop his continuous habit of misleading the Ghanaian public.
They pointed out that the the truth is that Dumsor predated the President Mills and President Mahama era, indeed Dumsor existed in the President Kufuor era.
They said the truth is that Ghana's energy generation capacity was lagging behind its energy requirement and supply to consumers, resulting in rationing of electricity called Dumsor.
They added that the truth is that the pre-2016 Dumsor was a Power Generation Problem whereas the current Dumsor under the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government is a combination of a Money problem, a Mismanagement problem and a Corruption problem.
According to them, the failure of successive governments to add to the electricity generation capacity while extending power to rural areas put pressure on the obsolete and poorly maintained equipment causing occasional outages called Light-off by Ghanaians.
They explained that the electricity Generation was by cheap Hydro from the Akosombo Dam which was drying up due to poor rainfall and expensive Fuel powered generators.
The late former President, Prof. Evan John Atta Mills initiated the self-financing ($1billion Atuabo Gas Plant) to produce and supply cheap reliable gas as an alternative to the erratic West African Gas supply from Nigeria which compounded the energy generation capacity of Ghana.
"It is now very clear that Dumsor was solved by the NDC before President John Dramani Mahama left office in 2016; leaving Ghana with excess electricity generation capacity, which the NPP called "WASTE POWER" instead of exporting or utilising for industrialization as intended in (Their failed "1 District 1factory") promise.
"Unlike the Kufour Toy Generators he imported to help solve Dumsor that did not generate even 1kw of power the Emergency Power Barges and Independent Power Producers [IPPs] engaged under President John Dramani Mahama produced in excess of what was required by Ghanaians thus ending Dumsor.
"It is also clear that Dumsor started before the NDC took power in 2009; it's on record that President Kufour during his tenure sent Pastors to Akosombo Dam to pray for rainfall to fill the dam so its generation capacity can increase, so the Dumsor at the time which was essentially a power generation capacity shortfall can be solved," they explained.
They pointed out that the Millennium Challenge Compact between Ghana Government and the United States of America Government for the optimization of the Power Sector ended up in the PDS scandal under Akufo Addo which the next NDC govt will surely investigate and possibly jail all the criminals involved.
They educated that the AMERI Power Plant was an emergency power plant, it was needed because there was an emergency which required power generation to resolve Dumsor; under Akufo Addo there was an audit of AMERI deal which did not uncover any underhand dealing, however, the inflated AMERI-NOVATION DEAL Scandal that Akufo Addo sent to Parliament under Executive Order led to the removal of then Energy Minister Boakye Agyaako who said he will speak at the appropriate time...
According to them, the appropriate time has come for Boakye Agyarko, who is aspiring to be NPP Flagbearer and consequently President of Ghana, to speak and expose the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government in the deliberate inflation of the AMERI-NOVATION DEAL and the PDS SCANDAL.*
They noted that the World Bank Country Director's ill-informed, reckless politically motivated comments on Ghana's energy sector should be seen against the backdrop of his own political ambitions.
They asserted that President John Dramani Mahama had remained President, with the EXCESS ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY which ended Dumsor and had the US Millennium Challenge Compact to improve the country's power sector with the potential of exporting Ghana's Excess electricity to neighbouring countries;
"It is obvious we would not be discussing excess capacity, IPPs demanding money for electricity which was not utilsed or exported or how PDS was used to squander the Millennium Challenge Compact as happened under Akufo Addo/ Bawumia/Ofori Atta Govt.
"If the 1-District 1-Factory claimed to have been implemented under Alan Kyeremanteng was real and not the hoax it has been exposed by a section of the media, these factories would have required the excess electricity and paid for it thus the Independent Power Producers [IPPs] who were operating on Take-or-Pay basis would not have been owed.
"The inefficiency of the VRA, GridCo, ECG and NedCo which are manifest in revenue shortfalls arising from non-collection of revenue from consumers, line losses, power theft among others cannot become President John Mahama's headache in the second term of Akufo Addo's Bankrupt govt.
"In fact, under President John Dramani Mahama the finances of the VRA, GridCo, ECG and NedCo were cleared by the then Finance Minister (Seth Terkpe) who was given additional responsibility for the Energy Ministry, so they could borrow on their own books and thrive as proper business entities and not appendages of government or political interests.
"Today, ECG has no meters to supply to consumers, consumers thus cannot legally enjoy electricity and ECG cannot correctly charge bills whiles others resort to illegally connecting to the National power grid, engage in power theft and continuing the vicious cycle of revenue shortfalls which will definitely lead Ghana back to Dumsor; this time with Excess Electricity Generation Capacity.
"In the midst of Excess Electricity, Bankrupt Ghana will officially be plunged into Darkness or Dumsor which has been ongoing under Akufo Addo for years now, albeit under other ridiculous pseudonyms e.g. Dumsiesie, Light-off, Planned maintenance, etc
"Beyond the empty noise from the talkative Akufo Addo-Bawumia government officials; they have not added any significant electricity generation to Ghana's existing capacity," they explained.
They indicated that the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government extended the tenure of the existing Take-or-Pay agreements originally signed under President John Dramani Mahama and have signed a new Take-or-Pay Power Purchase Agreements.
They said that the Energy Sector Levy and other funds such as the TOR Recovery Levy instead of being used for intended purposes, have rather been collateralized and squandered by the Akufo Addo-Bawumia government.
They pointed out that Akufo Addo-Bawumia government is bereft of ideas, mismanaged every sector including the Energy and Financial Sector and botched the Millennium Challenge Compact safety net with its inherent corruption via the PDS Scandal that they sought to use to steal ECG for free while walking free and still keeping the Prepaid monies of Ghanaian consumers of electricity.
"Everybody involved in the Upstream and Downstream corruption-tainted transactions e.g. PDS, AMERI-NOVATION Scandals must be arrested and prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others who may want to repeat the same in the other related energy sector transactions e.g. GNPC-AKER DEAL, GNPC-PetroSA," they noted
Anything short of this and transfer of the burden to Ghanaians bearing the brunt of the excruciating economic hardships via Dumsor or quarterly tariff increases will result in REVOLT, CIVIL ACTION or the much dreaded GHANA UPRISING.
