Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has assured Ghanaians that the recent power outages will very soon be a thing of the past.
He said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is working assiduously to fix the outages, popularly known as dumsor.
Speaking to the Clergy and Imams in Akropong on Monday, April 29, during his campaign tour of the Eastern Region, Dr. Bawumia expressed confidence in the government’s efforts to tackle the issue.
“I know there are challenges and I don’t want to paper over economic 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 said.
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Dr Bawumia further touted the achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration.
“For the first time in our history, people can buy electricity units on their mobile phones, we take it for granted now but a few years ago you had to go and queue at the ECG payment center to buy electricity,” Dr Bawumia added.
Recently, the Chairman of the governing board of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Herbert Krapa, has assured that the ongoing power crisis experienced by Ghanaians will soon come to an end.
Krapa stated that the government has implemented adequate measures to ensure consumers enjoy uninterrupted power supply in the coming days.
He emphasised that the government is aware of the challenges faced by Ghanaians and is committed to resolving them for the benefit of the people.
“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 read.