A section of the general public has described as false a recent remark passed by the Minority Leader, Afenyo-Markin, during the vetting process of President Mahama’s Deputy Ministers-designate.
While questioning Deputy Energy Minister-designate Richard Gyan-Mensah, Mr Afenyo-Markin made the statement that due to digitalisation, which is said to have been spearheaded by former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, “we don’t queue to buy prepaid credit—that is long gone!”
In reaction, a number of X users noted that such a comment is untrue as they continue to queue to get prepaid to have access to electricity.
Below are some comments from the users:
“Anyone who thinks the queues have ended is probably thinking where they live is all there is to Ghana…. You stay in one place and think where u live is all that happens in this nation. Honourable Afenyo Markin is displaying the same callousness that got them out of power. Not being on the grounds to understand the real challenges of the average Ghanaian but using the middle class and upper class he bonds with as reference.”
“Maybe Afenyo isn’t in Ghana either, because some queue, especially in areas where there’s always network problem. The fact that some portion of the country doesn’t queue doesn’t mean some don’t queue.”
“We still form long queues to buy prepaid. Go to Kumasi and see.”
A few others corroborated the remarks of the Minority Leader.
“Afenyo is right, for over a year ive not even gone in person to buy i use the power app.”
“t depends on the meter you are using. Some people still queue especially with the old meter.”
