If the appetites of readers are being whetted in terms of yearning to learn about what legacy I am doting on, then I am sorry to disappoint you that what Mahama left behind cannot be classified to be anything that warrants strong palms merging to give sounds of praise for a yeomanry manner in which that project was executed.
Dumsor is scourging all of us, and a simple change in government cannot render its efficacy useless, especially when the new administration has lasted for not more than two months in office.
Prognosis upon prognosis kept on coming, timelines kept on flooding our ears, many contracts were entered into, most of them were shrouded in some mysterious dubiousness which need to be deeply decoded and the facts unmasked for possible prosecution.
The Chinese built gas processing plant, Ameri and Karpower deals were engineered to add a bit of steam into our sapped energy projects, but events, as we have started witnessing, make nonsense of all those projects we were hoodwinked into believing that they would render our energy crisis a relic of the past.
In effect, those huge investments have failed to deaden our erratic power system, a nightmare that must be surmounted by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration, willy nilly.
Critics of the new administration are mischievously and mysteriously peddling the falsified information that dumsor has been reincarnated under Akufo-Addo despite his ‘sacred’ vows to tackle the problem head-on. In my considered opinion, dumsor never left us. Whoever believed the cancerous tumor left by Mahama was a dearly departed soul has been living in a dream world. Dumsor was only lurking around the corner for a few days, and having exhausted the number of days it assigned to itself, has now resurfaced with a bit of a bang.
In his avowed resolve to overcome this impedimental hurdle plaguing the people of Ghana, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has pledged to put in place a comprehensive plan which would bring this crisis to a finality if well implemented.
While this plan is being devised, it is important we are mindful not to retrace the steps and path the NDC used by thinking about only measures which have the potential to douce the deadly poison of dumsor in the short term, but measures which look beyond today.
Inasmuch as the current government was given the mandate to solve problems and challenges confronting the nation, it is also an irrevocable truth that it cannot be faulted for the ongoing crisis, and we must all rally behind them as they put in efforts to end our suffering in this department.
By: P.K.Sarpong
Whispers from the corridors of THE THINKING PLACE.*
