TOR Corporate Affairs Officer Slams Awal Mohammed Over Galamsey Gold Claims, Defends Gov’t on Power Crisis

Corporate Affairs Officer of TOR, Godwin Ayaba Mahama, has pushed back against recent claims by NPP communicator Awal Mohammed, accusing him of peddling unsubstantiated allegations and “ignorance” on energy issues.

In a hot argument on the Kessben Maakye show, Mahama Ayaba said, if Awal Mohammed of opposition NPP alleges that the NDC government is purchasing galamsey gold and could not substantiate, its uncalled for, Mahama stated.

In reaction to supposed harmful utterances issued by Dr. Mary Awusi, against the Church of Pentecost head pastor, he contrasted current government conduct with the past administration and argued, Dr. Awusi’s comment in galamsey has been apologised by the Chief of Staff and that settles it.

He added that NPP communicators did worse and they concurred, none of their party executives condemned nor apologised to anyone.

He therefore referenced verbal abuse and defamatory statements peddled by NPP Bono regional chairman, Kwame Baffoe (Abronye) against archbishop Duncan Williams and many other prominent people.

He further lambasted Awal for continuous exhibition of ignorance saying, the entire NPP machinery does not have a direction. Mahama added.

In a rebater to allegation on increment and misuse of ESLA levy, Ayaba Mahama reiterated that

“Ignorance is a disease, ESLA was collateralised under NPP, so whatever goes into that fund goes to pay out of the loan,” so there is no huge accumulation of money that the government is spending to that effect.

On the AMERI plant, he claimed, NPP transported AMERI from Takoradi to Kumasi which cost Ghc 3.6 billion because there was intermittent outages, but could not fully resolve the issue.

Addressing recent power cuts, Mahama said government response is key. _“When there is an issue the government responds determines whether they care or not,”_ he said.

He admitted that the intermittent power outage was runny before Akosombo fire issue because there was the need to change obsolete transformers Nationwide” he explained.

In conclusion he said the government is on course in tackling the dumsor issue, and cautioned let no one be deceived by any NPP communicator that everything was perfect regard energy before they left power,” Mahama stated.

Giving a status update, he said, _“As we speak, 3 out of 6 transmitter at Akosombo has been fixed and we will soon overcome the situation.”_