However, Mahama stated that he accepted responsibility for the problem and worked to resolve it before leaving office in 2016.
Mr. Mahama stated that the dumsor was a generation issue and that his government invested in electricity generating as part of the solution.
Speaking to National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates on Friday, April 14, Mr. Mahama, who is running for NDC flagbearer, said,
“In 2016, I wouldn’t say Ghana was a paradise, but our situation was far better than it is today.”
“In 2016, our colleagues in the NPP told a lot of lies about us, labeled us as incompetent,
And came with a lot of big and sweet promises to the people of Ghana, using that to persuade the people that they will be a better government than we were.”
“And so the people of Ghana tried them by voting for them,
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They said they should try them, and that was the mistake the people of Ghana made because we have come to realize that after all the ‘we have the men.
We have the men’ it was station boys, they didn’t know anything.”
“If you take our ministers who were running this country in 2016 and compare them to their ministers who are running Ghana today,
Pound for pound, our ministers were far better than any of them,” he added.
He went on to say, “We solved many difficult challenges, dumsor was not created by us, it was a lack of generation capacity over the years,
And so when we came into office, we were confronted with it, we did not run away, we did not shift the blame to somebody.”
“I could have said Presidents Rawlings, Kuffuor, and Mills did not add new generation, but what we did was take responsibility,
And I went to Parliament and said yes, you elected us to take responsibility, and we will fix it.”
“By the time we left in 2016, we had fixed Dumsor and the generational challenges.
“Indeed, they accused us of putting in more power than we required.”
Source: 3news
