Campaign on 'dumsor' in 2016 and you'll regret - Gen. Mosquito to NPP

General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia is positive that current power crisis facing the nation will be a thing of the past.

Mr. Asiedu Nketia said he is convinced measures being implemented to arrest the situation will yield expected results in 2015.

“I am very happy that the current government is sparing no effort in achieving that [power crisis],” Mr. Asiedu Nketia indicated, when he co-presented the News Review segment with former General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, on the Joy FM Super Morning Show Tuesday, December 23, 2014.

Mr. Afriyie, popularly called 'Sir John' had commented on the an assurance said to have been given by the new Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor to the effect that the ongoing load management would be relaxed during the yuletide festivities.

He had urged the authorities in the power sector to provide uninterrupted power to consumers on Christmas and Boxing Days – December 25 and 26- just as they did during Ghana's participation at the group stages of the 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil. 

“If they could give us light…for those two days I think that it will help ease the stress that we have gone through over the years,” Sir John entreated.

But Mr. Asiedu Nketia, known also as General Mosquito, the reason the country is going through the current crisis in the power sector due to the fact that “for so many years we have slackened the pace of generation while economic growth has increased the demand for power to double digits”.

“So whenever you have yourself in that situation you know that you cannot do any magic in getting power to everybody at all times...

“That's why I'm very positive that we ought not to hang the criticism of government on 'dumsor dumor; if you did that you will laughing from the wrong side of your mouth in 2016,” Asiedu Nketia said.

The NDC while in opposition in 2008 promised the electorate it would end the power crisis if wins the elections. Having governed the country for almost six years, the situation has gone from bad to worse.

In the assessment of Mr. Asiedu Nketia, the situation should be a thing of the past within a short time and cautioned the opposition party not to attempt to make it a campaign mantra come the next general elections in 2016.

“So this whole business of blaming one person or the other about 'dumsor' [for political gains] then that should be it but the real solution is for us to match demand with supply or supply more than we actually demand".

Listen to excerpts of the News Review segment presented on Joy FM by Sir John and General Mosquito:

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