The Member of Parliament for South Dayi has claimed that the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government is deliberately ignoring the return of erratic power supply (dumsor) because it fears its impact on the 2024 general elections.
During an interview on GhanaWeb TV’s The Lowdown, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor stated that the NPP extensively used the term ‘dumsor’ during the power supply challenges under John Dramani Mahama’s government, but they are now avoiding it.
He pointed out that the NPP popularized the term ‘dumsor’ to such an extent that it was even included in Wikipedia for global understanding.
“The game is over but the score is remembered… The people who made dumsor a campaign message, today are afraid of dumsor being a campaign topic.
“Nobody is saying there is dumsor, it is the nature in which the lights are flicking off and on. When JM was in power, we could have said there was no dumsor conveniently but the reality was that we had instability in the supply of power.”
He added, “It was hyped so much so that dumsor found its way to Wikipedia. Today, if you google dumsor, google is able to tell you what it means in respect to Ghana. The people who did that are afraid of being measured to the same standards.”