The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has reassured the public that the national grid remains stable.
In a press release issued on Easter Friday, the power distributor attributed recent power outages in certain areas to localized faults.
ECG urged its customers to report such faults for prompt action.
“The Electricity Company of Ghana wishes to inform our cherished customers and the general public that we have a stable national power supply (stable national grid).”
“Any customer who is currently experiencing power outage is due to a localised fault.”
Earlier, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disclosed that it had issued over 100 power outage notifications in the first two and a half months of this year, mostly due to maintenance activities.
This disclosure was in response to an inquiry from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) regarding the ECG’s power outage records for the current year.
Of the three inquiries posed to the power distributor, this response was the only one due by March 27th. Key among the PURC’s requests to the ECG was the provision of a schedule for load shedding.
It is so, so unbelievable the extent to which people who have been politically appointed into positions are willing lie to defend their masters.
How could the MD and the Minister of Energy look at Ghanaians in the face and lie to all of us that there is no Dumsor. Dumsor, the Twi word, means, off and on. So, are we the good citizens of Ghana supposed to concern ourselves with our lights going off and on or how the off and on happens. If during the NDCs time we experienced Dumsor because they couldn’t buy fuel to generate enough power and so our lights kept going on and off, why would any right thinking persons insist that the light off and on we are experiencing currently is not Dumsor because it is not caused by inability of government to generate adequate electricity. The NDC didn’t have enough money to buy fuel to generate electricity and so we experienced Dumsor, the NPP doesn’t have the money to buy transformers to inject into areas with overloaded transformers and so we are experiencing Dumsor, are both of them not related to financial difficulties? So why would a whole Minister of Energy and MD of the ECG stoop so low to offer explanations that do not make sense in the least and which make them appear foolish in the eyes of discerning Ghanaians.
As for the Minister, his foolhardy response that those who are clamouring for a time table should create one themselves, should tell those who are supporting him to become Vice President to Bawumia that he has shot himself in the foot by his arrogant posturing and that any attempt by the NPP govt to nominate him as the as Vice President to Bawumia, will prove very costly to the party come December this year.
Power corrupts and absolute power, they say, corrupts absolutely. It does appear that, after being in power for some substantial number of year, the bellies of our leaders become so full that they begin to forget that they were voted into power by the ordinary citizen in the street.
The govt and its officials must swallow their pride and publish a table as quickly as yesterday to ameliorate our suffering.
They should remember that we are the same people who voted them into power. A word to the wise……..