A prominent private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has criticized the Akufo-Addo government for its failure to devise a schedule for the ongoing erratic power supply (dumsor), which would assist Ghanaian households and businesses in better planning their lives.
In an interview on TV3’s The Keypoints program on April 23, 2024, Mr Kpebu stated that the sole reason the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is hesitant to create a dumsor timetable is due to the potential political consequences of such action.
Kpebu emphasized that the government is aware that releasing a dumsor timetable would undoubtedly impact the fate of the NPP in the forthcoming December 7, 2024, general elections.
“It (the refusal to devise a dumsor timetable) is nothing new. It just reiterates the statement by Socrates that ‘Politicians are crooks’, that’s it; rooks and are busy gaslighting us.
“Because commonsensically, this dumsor timetable should have been out. But you see how they keep making it look like rocket science, shifting blame? ECG keeps saying that they don’t get enough notice from GRIDCo, so it’s impossible to get a timetable.
“Then you find Matthew Opoku Prempeh (the Minister for Energy), come to insult us after we’ve paid him with taxes and even has not had the courtesy to render an unqualified apology to us. And it goes on and on and on,” he said.
The lawyer added, “So what they’re saying is that if this timetable comes out, then it means that they are sinking themselves, you know, because election 2024 is just in the corner.”