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‘Dumsor’ was NDC’s biggest misfortune in 2016 polls – Joyce Bawah

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Joyce Bawah Mogtari, spokesperson for the John Mahama campaign team, has acknowledged the prolonged power outage, locally known as ‘Dumsor,’ was the National Democratic Congress (NDC) bane in the 2016 election.

According to the former Deputy Transport Minister, the NDC was committed to finding long-term solutions to the power challenges and not to score political points.

“I believe strongly and maybe because I’m very close to the campaign, that in 2016, one of our biggest misfortunes was the fact that we had these crippling power outages.”

“I mean look, the whole of Ghana suffered enormously from those outages and people were up in arms. Yes, maybe we could even have offered solutions in a much quicker time, but it wasn’t that easy to do,” she said.

In an interview on Accra-based Channel One TV, she admitted the impact of the dumsor caused frustration among Ghanaians and led to their loss in the election.

“This was a country that over the years depended largely on Akosombo Dam, we used to have crawlers telling us about the water levels, and then the rain patterns changed, and then climate issues happened.

“And somehow, it threw us completely overboard. Look, it was not in Mr Mahama’s interest for that whole protracted power outage to have actually occurred, but it happened,” she noted.

However, Joyce Bawah said NDC has learnt lessons from the experience and pledged the flagbearer, John Mahama’s commitment to address the crisis in the energy sector if elected President on December 7.

 

Source: adomonline.com

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