Instead of a no holds barred and lets-get-the-business-handled attitude towards the power crisis which has bedeviled the country in the last almost four years, the Power Minister Dr. Kwabena Donkor is rather being dismissive and throwing tantrums at journalists who were seeking to know the current state of the power crisis and his response has angered a group calling itself Concerned Ghanaians therefore urging the President to axe the Minister out of office for what they term as gross disrespect towards Ghanaians in that regard.
The Minister is on record to have stated emphatically that he doesn’t know when the power crisis will end during an interview with a Kumasi based radio station. This interview was done in the wake of President Mahama’s earlier assurance that the Power Minister (Kwabena Donkor) was going to announce an end to the crisis soon but Dr. Donkor thought otherwise when he responded saying; “If President Mahama says dumsor will be over very soon, why don’t you ask him, am I his spokesman.”
In a rather strong worded statement which was forwarded to this paper it said, “it comes as a surprise to us if the Minister who before the creation of that special ministry and his appointment as the minister to that sector had made a lot of noise about pragmatic solutions to solve the power crisis as if he had the magic wand only for him to get the job and promise Ghanaians of another whole year to solve it after we have painfully survived this hell of a crisis more than two years already.”
“The Minister’s reference to the President is an affront and a complete misunderstanding of his own responsibility and that is why we are calling on the President to fire him immediately,” it said.
“Clearly, the Minister just want to tell us that ‘I have failed and cannot even soothe you with reasons why I failed so why don’t you rather direct your questions to the President who erroneously thought that creating that new power ministry was going to bring something special to the solution table because it was purely a propaganda gimmick and a time buying stunt on his (President) part”, it said.
The statement indicated that; “It ‘s sad that nobody checked him (Dr. Donkor) when he made that frivolous promise to end the crisis in a year… because if a problem had persisted for over two years with a government and you sweet talk your way to the position to handled it and you get there and promise another whole year as the time line to resign if you fail is most ridiculous to say the least unless of course the government was not doing anything at all about the situation like it made us believe.”
“The creation of that power ministry is absolutely useless because it hasn’t really brought anything special to the solution table apart from what the existing structures were already doing and could have well continued to this point if he still can’t give definite time lines to quench this hell being visited on Ghanaians”, they opined.
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