Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party has said that the current worsening power situation is a microcosm of a larger economic mismanagement and lack of transformational policies within the Mahama led administration.
[contextly_sidebar id=”0yhA0hqDt9C0omV9nNRzW7x8TuV3FFkZ”]Ghana has in the past three years been struggling with inconsistent power supply despite various interventions to arrest the situation.
He said “the 2016 elections is not going to be about Dumsor, it’s going to be about lack of jobs, about the cost living, about the cost of doing business and about transformational policies that the NDC lack to change this country.”
Addressing a large crowd of students at the Wa campus of the University for Development Studies(UDS), the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana disagreed with some political pundits that the on-going power crisis will be topical during the 2016 general elections.
“Ghanaians will reject the NDC because of “massive corruption among its officials and the high cost of living in the country,” he said.
Dr. Bawumia opined that the NDC government has no clear cut policies that will alleviate Ghanaians from their current economic predicaments and called on Ghanaians not to allow themselves to be deceived by the NDC in the 2061 elections.
He stressed “same way players and coaches are dropped when they fail to perform, as a government when you waste a golden opportunity, you should be shown the door.”
The renowned economist also took a swipe on government for resorting to the IMF for a bailout, arguing that the country is rich in both human and natural resources that are required to transform it.
He decried “three years after Ghana started exporting oil, we have arrived cup in hand at the door step of the IMF begging for a bailout. This is unforgivable.”
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By: Mahama Latif/citifmonline.com/Ghana