Given his prior difficulties in resolving the nation’s ongoing power problem, known as “dumsor,” Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, has warned Ghanaians to view President John Dramani Mahama’s economic pledges with skepticism.
His comments follow President Mahama’s commitment to reestablish economic stability and spur national progress in his State of the Nation Address (SONA), which was delivered on Thursday, February 27, 2025.
“I, John Dramani Mahama, will fix the economic crisis confronting our country and reset it on a path of growth and prosperity,” Mahama assured in his address.
Speaking in an interview with Eyewitness News, former Information Minister Oppong Nkrumah questioned Mahama’s capacity to fulfill these promises, pointing to the way his previous government handled issues in the energy and economic sectors.
“Every Ghanaian knows that in 2016, there was dumsor despite the fact that he said in January 2016 that he would fix dumsor, there was still dumsor. If President Mahama today tells us that just like he fixed Dumsor, he would fix the economy, when every Ghanaians knows that in 20216 there was dumsor, then every Ghanaian can extrapolate that all the promises that you have just outlined; the promises of July 2024 which he repeated today as something he will live by then it suggests to us that we are in for a very difficult time,” he stated.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
