Co-founder of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has suggested that the frequent power outages in 2016 contributed to the electoral victory of the then-opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost to the NPP.

His remarks come as Ghana experiences a resurgence of these outages, commonly known as 'Dumsor,' in another election year.

Speaking on JoyNews on March 28, the professor expressed serious concern about the recent impact of this situation on electricity supply to the Tema General Hospital.

“At times, I wonder whether there is any organization so to speak in what we do and whether public professionals are mindful of how citizens feel because the reaction is coming from all over. In fact, the one that you read from the hospital reminds me of what is going on in Gaza, where there is a brutal war against Palestinians and hospitals we show on the street, where babies are dying, but here we are; we are not in a war condition. We have experienced this before; why will we sit down eight years later and have a repeat?" he quizzed on the AM Show.

He emphasized that the government must be more transparent with citizens so that they can collaborate to find a solution.

Prof. Agyeman-Duah stated that while the current situation is unacceptable, citizens would be more understanding if the government were open and honest with them.

“But when there is no transparency in how our public sector provides our services, then, of course, we are going to have all this kind of speculation, but it is such a tragic situation for a government that came to power by and large with this kind of problem under the previous government.

"You come in eight years, and you come back to zero. That for me is a tragedy; it means this country either does not learn, we do not go forward, or we have people who are running our affairs; we are not competent," he said.