So Afenyo-Markin, fresh from a long nap, has emerged to accuse the NDC government of first increasing electricity tariffs and then imposing an E-Levy on fuel — GH₵4.50 per gallon, he cries. Convenient outrage. Selective memory. And a whole cartload of gaslighting.
The electricity tariff increment he’s screaming about? That wasn’t a rogue decision plucked from the blue. It was part of Ghana’s IMF programme — a programme born, signed, and blessed under the NPP government he belonged to. Tariff adjustments were baked into the conditionalities to clean up the mess they left behind — a fiscal crater, an energy sector bleeding from mismanagement, and a debt profile that looked like an ECG bill after ten months of ‘estimated billing’. So let’s not pretend the NDC invented hardship. What they inherited was economic rot gift-wrapped in arrogance.
Now to the so-called E-Levy on petrol — “D-Levy” as some have hilariously dubbed it. Ironically, Afenyo and his colleagues already served the public a full buffet of fuel taxes during their time. Or has he forgotten?
Here’s a gentle reminder:
• 20 pesewas levy per litre on petrol and diesel
• 10 pesewas borla levy on every litre
• 18 pesewas levy slapped on LPG
• 30% hike in the Energy Sector Levy (ESLA)
• 11% increase in the Special Petroleum Tax
• 200% rise in the BOST margin
• 36% increase in the Unified Petroleum Price Fund 
They taxed fuel like it was an enemy of the state — and did so with a straight face, a crooked conscience, and a loud propaganda machine. Ghanaian motorists were already bleeding at the pumps long before the so-called D-Levy. So what exactly is Afenyo Markin whining about? That the NDC government is now cleaning the clogged gutters he helped fill?
And since we’re here, let’s talk ECG — the Electricity Company of Ghana. Billions vanished under Afenyo’s watch. Ghost contracts. Looted revenue. Prepaid vendors operating like underground cartels. No accountability. And now he wants to pretend that these tariffs and levies are being imposed in a vacuum? If people like Afenyo hadn’t sat back and allowed ECG to become a leaking bucket of embezzlement and incompetence, the taxpayer wouldn’t be footing this bill today.
Let’s be real — the tomorrow they lied about, romanticized, and inflated with cheap promises has finally arrived. And it has delivered hardship not as a surprise, but as a direct descendant of eight years of hollow governance. That baby is called D-Levy — the Dumsor Levy. The consequence of financial recklessness disguised as Free SHS and “One District, One Excuse.”
So to Afenyo-Markin: remember the vows you took as a traveler. As a builder, you pledged to uphold truth, justice, and service to humanity — not to twist facts for political convenience. If there’s one thing worse than mismanaging a country, it’s pretending you didn’t, especially when you stood before brethren and swore to be a builder of integrity. Let that oath mean something.
P.S. Let it be known — this is my official position on the so-called D-Levy: GH₵1 for dumsor is not a solution; it’s a very expensive prayer offering.
