Sammy Gyamfi is asking the Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the crime in Ghanaians demanding a timetable to plan their lives in relation to the ongoing power outages.
The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says despite knowing Dr. Opoku Prempeh, also known as Napo, as an arrogant person, his recent display of the trait was beyond comprehension when journalists asked him about timetable for the prevailing power rationing otherwise known as dumsor.
During the inauguration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaign team in the Ashanti Region, the Manhyia South lawmaker challenged those advocating for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to issue a load-shedding timetable to present their own proposed schedules.
He told critics to develop their own timetables for the erratic power supply otherwise referred to as dumsor, if they deemed it necessary. Dr. Opoku Prempeh questioned the rationale behind creating a timetable when the ECG has confirmed that no such plan is in place.
On Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, Mr. Gyamfi noted that Ghanaians do not pay electricity bills to themselves, and demanding for a timetable in the midst of the erratic power supply to plan their lives adequately, did not warrant that display of arrogance and pomposity exhibited by the Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South.
“I don’t know where Napo’s pomposity is coming from. I have always known him as a very arrogant person but the level he has taken it is mind boggling. His response to the journalists that those who need the timetable should provide it themselves is unsavory. He speaks as if he is God. Is it a crime for us citizens who have employed and pay you to ask for a timetable due to your own inefficiencies just to plan our lives?
“Do we pay the electricity bills to ourselves, or we generate the power on our own? We must speak truth to power and tell him to desist from his pomposity and arrogance because they won’t help him,” he advised.
Meanwhile, he had earlier debunked his assertion that the NPP government has performed 300 times better than the NDC in the energy sector.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, the Minister’s quest to change the narrative about what dumsor is, is neither here nor there, since both situations, irrespective of the administration under which they occurred, give Ghanaians the same problems.
