The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has cautioned Ghanaians to be wary of President John Dramani Mahama’s economic promises, referencing his past failure to resolve the country’s ongoing power crisis, “dumsor.”
Oppong Nkrumah’s comments came in response to President Mahama’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday, February 27, 2025, where Mahama vowed to restore economic stability and spur national growth.
In an interview, Oppong Nkrumah, a former Minister of Works and Housing, expressed doubts about Mahama’s ability to fulfill these pledges, pointing to the challenges his previous administration faced in managing the economy and the energy sector.
“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 Ghanaian knows that in 2016 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 said.
