The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Flagbearer, John Mahama, has urged the government to admit the existence of ‘dumsor’ (power outages) and give a clear load-shedding schedule.
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Recent power failures across the country sparked Mahama’s plea for openness.
Speaking at a meeting in Sissala West as part of his “Building the Ghana We Want” Tour in the Upper West area, Mr. Mahama stated that Ghanaians are well aware of the current load shedding and merely require a clear schedule.
As a previous president, Mahama emphasized the need to keep the public informed about difficulties and the efforts taken to address them.
He was concerned that the present administration had not been as transparent in addressing the matter.
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He said: “When I was president, if things were not going well, I told the people of Ghana things are not going well and this is what we are trying to do about it. I think my honesty was one of my major problems because I didn’t think I should fool my people. Today every day you sleep and the lights go off and we know that they are shedding load. They have a problem with generation. Some generation assets are down. They have a problem with paying for gas.
“They have a problem with paying for fuel so every day they are shedding between 280 and 480 megawatts of power but they will not give us a timetable and say you will be off today, this one will be off tomorrow because that is what Ghanaians know as dumsor.
“And so we will just put off the light anytime and reduce the number of megawatts so the system won’t go down. But we don’t call it dumsor and so there is no dumsor but we know that it is dumsor.”
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