President Akufo-Addo’s claim that the load-shedding experience also known as ‘dumsor’ has been resolved, according to Nana Amoasi VII, Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security (IES), is not true.
The President was confident on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 during his speech at the May Day celebration in Accra, when he said dumsor has been resolved and will not come back again.
But the man who recently called for the head of the Energy Minister over the power crisis says the reality on the grounds is different from what the President told Ghanaians.
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He listed some places that experienced dumsor at the times the President mentioned that electricity supply has been stable across the country.
Nana Amoasi said areas including Weija, Ekumfi, Mankessim, Nungua, and Tema Community 2 and 25, experienced power outages between Tuesday and Wednesday.
Nana Amoasi said the President’s handlers might be feeding him with wrong information, advising him to base his pronouncements on reality as they could mislead the public over the true state of power supply in the country.
“The first thing that we picked from the President’s statement is that today he is admitting that under his tenure, there has been dumsor. And so he made it clear in his statement that the load shedding that we are seeing is probably normal…To say that the issues have been dealt with is misleading and we pray that the handlers of the President will rather lead him than mislead him. Sometimes the president looks awful in the eyes of industry players, the watchers and even consumers.”
“I am sure any pronouncement that he made is contingent on what they tell him but he must be very careful because the handlers are not putting out what the issues are. The value is the same. We’ve just seen a bit of change last night but if the president says that yesterday we didn’t experience dumsor anywhere around the country, that is untrue. I can recount some few places we have checked,” he stated on Accra-based Citi FM.
