Member of Parliament for Tano North, Dr Gideon Boako, has condemned the decision of the government to increase utilities.
He has questioned where the reduced cost of living they promised the Ghanaian people is if, after three months in government, they are increasing utilities.
In a post shared via social media, Dr Gideon Boako could not fathom why the NDC in power will continue to make the lives of Ghanaians bitter with increased utilities but poor services.
His post chronicled the increases of utilities between the two leading political parties drawing the attention of Ghanaians to the fact that the NPP manages the sector well and do not increase utilities as compared to the NDC.
His post read “The data I am sharing below depicts increases/reduction in electricity tariffs under the NDC (from 2009 to 2016) and NPP (from 2017 to 2024). It is instructive to note that both political regimes experienced IMF programmes in their first and second terms.
Under NDC
* 2009 – nill
* 2010 – 89% increase
* 2012 – 7.42% increase
* 2013 – 58.9% increase
* 2014 – 28.35% increase
* 2015 – 90.93% increase
* 2016 – 10% increase
Under NPP
* 2017 – nill
* 2018 – 17.5% reduction
* 2019 – 17.46% increase
* 2020 – nill
* 2021 – nill
* 2022 – nill
* 2023 – 51.02% increase
* 2024 – 6.47% increase
The NDC from 2009 to 2016 did a cumulative percentage increase in electricity tariffs of 294.6%, which translates into an average increase in electricity tariffs of 36.8% over their 8 years period in government
The NPP, on the other hand, did a cumulative percentage increase in electricity tariffs of 57.45% and an average of 7.2%.
While under the NDC, electricity tariffs were increased astronomically, Ghanaians at the same time were living in dumsor.
Under the Nana Addo-Bawumia government, electricity tariffs saw minimal increase with corresponding steady and reliable supply of electricity power.
Today, the government of the NDC that promised to reduce the cost of living for Ghanaians has, in their first four months in office, increased electricity tariffs by 14.75%. Coming events, they say, cast their own shadows.
And, hey! Let this not be blamed on any IMF programme because the data above shows that under the same IMF programmes, the NPP managed the electricity tariffs better.
Source: Public Utilities Regulatory Commission(PURC)”.
