Vice President and the NPP Flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the 7-week intermittent power cuts, popularly known as “dumsor” that plunged the country into darkness will soon be over.
Ghanaians had experienced power outages in the past few months which raised concerns about a possible return dumsor.
Ghanaians, including businesses had called on Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), to publish a load shedding timetable to enable them know when they would and would not have electricity power.
But the country over the weekend experienced stable power supply signalling a drastic improvement in power generation in the country.
Addressing the religious leaders in Akropong on Monday, (April 29) to kick start his campaign tour in the Eastern Region, Dr Bawumia said “I know that there are challenges … we are going to work on them.”
“Currently, we have issues with power but I say that from the information I have received from the Minister for Energy, those power challenges will very soon, and I mean very soon be a thing of the past,” the Vice President disclosed.
The Board chair of ECG, Herbert Krapa on Wednesday, 24 April 2024, assured the country that the unfortunate power crisis Ghanaians were experiencing would be over in a few days as the government had put in place adequate measures to ensure that, consumers enjoy uninterrupted power supply.
In a post on his Facebook Wall, My Krapa wrote, “As I said earlier today at Kaleo, at the Commissioning of VRA’s 15MW Solar Plant, the Government has put in place immediate measures to ensure the return of uninterrupted supply of power to consumers. I can, therefore, state that the unfortunate power challenges Ghanaians are facing should be over in the next few days.”
“We are fully confident that the measures being put in place should resolve the service interruptions. We empathise with all consumers and apologise unreservedly for the effects of the outages on our daily lives. Please bear with us. We are fixing it, and we are nearly there,” Herbert Krapa’s post further read.
Power consumers across the country over the last 7 weeks have been experiencing intermittent power cuts. There were calls by a section of the Ghanaian public for the Ministry of Energy to publish an official timetable to keep consumers informed.
The improvement in the power situation in the country comes as a big relief to the households and businesses that rely on constant electricity supply for their business activities.
Rex Mainoo Yeboah, ISD
