I have resigned for reasons of domestic politics – Former Minister of Electricity

General News on Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Source: 3news.com

2018-11-27

Former Energy Minister, Kwabena Donkor, revealed his controversial resignation of 2015 because the sector minister of the time was not due to his alleged inability to put an end to it. to the electricity crisis (dumsor) that the country was facing at the time.

The MP from the Pru East constituency in the Brong Ahafo region took office while the then energy minister had promised to resign from his post when he was not in office. could not solve the problem of electricity before the end of 2015.

"At least the end of the year is December, so you can stick to that … Yes, I will resign," Mr. Donkor had replied to the question of whether Ghanaians would be justified by the fact. to call at its head if the problem of power persisted closely. of 2015.

On 31 December, however, Mr Donkor submitted a letter of resignation which was widely commented by the media as a realization of his wish to resign if he failed to resolve the energy crisis.

But Mr Donkor, on Monday, Nov. 27, opened at Winston Amoah on 3FM morning show Sunrise, dismissing reports that he had resigned because of the controversial "dumsor" promise.

Not wishing to disclose the details, he said: "I have resigned for internal political reasons, which I am not willing to say here".

The MP for Pru ​​East said, "I did not do it, I signed my letter of resignation, I wrote my letter of resignation," saying he had voluntarily left his post.

He stated that there was evidence showing that he had solved the problem of food and that the then President, John Dramani Mahama, had even applauded it, as his team, during his speech on the state of the nation in 2016.

Mr. Donkor argued that the Load Management Committee reports that the load shedding was not completed after leaving the office was not factual.

According to him, the load shedding officially ended on December 16, 2015 and the government of the day only wanted to play carefully without being too rebaduring.

Commenting on recent developments in the energy sector where many Ghanaians have complained about the re-emergence of "dumsor", the former energy minister said he settled it in 2015.

When asked why "dumsor" is back if the problem has been solved, Mr. Donkor has answered proverbially: "If you get sick and go to the hospital and get healed, does that guarantee you that you will not get sick again? "