My “banish dumsor” comment was only a prayer request – President Mahama

President John Mahama has said that a comment he made to the effect that the erratic power supply (dumsor-dumsor) in the country will be banished this year was only a prayer request and not a promise.

The President told members of the Perez Chapel in Accra on the night of December 31 that 2015 will be “one in which we banish darkness from our land and put an end to dumsor forever”.

The comment was met with criticism by some Ghanaians, who pointed that the President had a tendency to make promises without fulfilling them.

But speaking Wednesday on Kumasi-based Angel FM, on the occasion of his second year in power, President Mahama clarified his comments:

“I won’t say I made a promise, it was an all-night to see the beginning of 2015 and in times like that, people make wishes to God and I’m the President and seeing the way the erratic power supply is disturbing thi