NPP cannot take credit for ending "dumsor"- Haruna Iddrisu

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu says the NPP government cannot take credit for ending dumsor because they have not added anything to the energy generation capacity.

According to him, it would have been appropriate if the finance minister said they inherited a generational capacity that aided in ending the dumsor.

Ken Ofori- Atta during the reading of the 2018 ‘Adwuma’ budget on Wednesday, November 15 said the NPP government was able to put an end to the power crisis that caused the collapse of many businesses in the country during 2012- 2016.

“We have all too soon forgotten how the menace of dumsor from 2012- 2016 crippled the economy. It contributed to the lowest growth rate recorded in the past decade, the loss of jobs, reduced economic output and the loss of consumer and investor confidence in the economy. Dumsor was also compounded by high electricity tariffs, increasing the cost of doing business in the country.”

He teased the efforts of government in ending dumsor has made SHS students to literally forget how to spell dumsor because the NPP government has managed to banish the phenomenon 11 months in administration.

But the Minority leader in a radio interview reacting to the statement of the finance minister said every Ghanaian knows the NDC put an end to dumsor before leaving power and there was no need for the NPP to try and take credit for what they have not done.