The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has criticised the government’s newly launched Performance Tracker.
During his ‘Building the Ghana We Want’ tour in Nalerigu in the North East Region on Tuesday, April 16, Mr Mahama dismissed the projects listed in the tracker as mere fantasies that do not merit praise.
He compared the Performance Tracker with the NDC’s well-known Green Book, implying that the tracker does not accurately represent the government’s efforts.
“They have come with something they call a performance tracker, and they are retracting some of the things. They say 67 were put in error, and the performance tracker has things that the district assembly should be doing, toilets. We built a toilet here, we built a toilet there. You know.
“When we published our green book, our green book was evidence-based. And every single thing you see in the green book exists, and we have done it here in Ghana. They can go and take the green book. I challenge the media. Go and take the green book and show me one project in the green book that does not exist.
“We didn’t have to retract anything. They found it was solid, so they came and said, oh, we went to Dubai and took pictures. University of Ghana Medical Centre. They said it’s a hospital in Dubai. We went and took the pictures and came and put them in the green book. Today, when they are sick, they go to the University of Ghana Medical Center for treatment,” he said.
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Meanwhile, Edward Bawa, the Member of Parliament for Bongo, has detailed the measures implemented by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to address the recurring power outages popularly referred to as dumsor.
The Mahama administration faced significant criticism when Ghanaians experienced a power crisis during his tenure. Some NDC leaders, however, have claimed that they resolved “dumsor” before their term ended.
In a Face to Face interview on Citi TV, Edward Bawa stated that the Mahama government resolved all the initial problems causing the power outages.
He emphasized that issues such as generation capacity, fuel security, and unpaid accumulated legacy debts were addressed in 2015.
“Essentially, by the close of 2015, the major issues that had to do with the power sector had been dealt with. When the NDC came, obviously these problems were still there waiting to strike again. Unfortunately, it reared its head in 2013, when we had a problem with the breached pipeline and that told us that we needed to do something about our fuel security properly. By the close of 2015, we had procured enough generation power to be able to deal with the immediate cause of “Dumsor”.
“Generation was the immediate issue, that part by the close of 2015, actually had been dealt with. There was also a financial aspect of it which was dealt with, particularly just the end of 2015 and 2016. We were dealing with the debts and then by the close of 2015, we had also dealt with the fuel security issue because we had then brought on board Atuabo Gas Plant that was going to utilize our gas.”
Bawa noted that the government introduced ESLA to eliminate legacy debts incurred due to utility inefficiencies and unallocated subsidies.
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“It was the financial aspect of it which had to do with the energy sector levy. The legacy debt and so the ESLA was to retire the legacy debts. The NDC government under John Mahama felt that in five years, it would be able to retire the debts and also ensured that no new debt was piled up, so Compact 2 was brought in.”
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