Samuel Tetteh Agbetor, chairman of the Western Regional Workers’ Union of ECG, said: “Dumsor is back and government should be bold enough to allow ECG to announce the timetable for load shedding.”
“The timetable for the current load shedding also called ‘dumsor’ is ready but the president says we should not publish it,” the workers told Daily Guide newspaper.
Samuel Tetteh Agbetor, chairman of the Western Regional Workers’ Union of ECG, said: “Dumsor is back, and the government should be bold enough to allow ECG to announce the timetable for load shedding.”
According to him, the current energy problem has to do with generation by the Volt River Authority (VRA) adding that:”we the staff of ECG will not sit down to be blamed or allow anyone to put our lives in jeopardy.”
Background
President John Mahama recently maintained that the country is not back to the protracted energy crisis, popularly known as ‘Dumsor’.
“We are not declaring load shedding; I believe things will normalize but we are taking steps everyday to ensure that Ghana has security when it comes to power," the president said.
But the NPP in a statement said government should stop the denial and “listen to the cry of the industries and Ghanaians, and stop the inexplicable denial and immediately publish a time table /schedule for the ongoing Dumsor.”
The statement expressed concerned about the payment of a monthly $8.3 million to Ameri Power Plant for no gas as per an agreement with the Turkish company.