A group calling itself Concerned Ghanaians are threatening to embark on a demonstration exercise on Independence Day, March 6, to protest the current energy crisis that has hit the nation.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Rat9EMYLgNss981nbk3CLf4hupixTM3L”]“In a mass show of action encapsulating the national mood, we intend to take to the streets of Accra on 6th March 2015, Independence Day, to demonstrate against the continual erratic electricity supply and the seeming lack of ability of both the government and the ECG to get a grip on the problem,” a statement from the group stated.
According to them, “it is both shameful and embarrassing that, in the 21st Century, our pretensions of being taken seriously as an independent country are rendered a joke by the continual failure of ECG to provide a consistent supply of electricity.”
Power producers and distributors in the country have been struggling to provide the power required to meet the energy needs of the nation.
Thus the country is currently undergoing a shedding load exercise.
The group argued that a consistent power supply is a basic building block of a nation’s infrastructure “yet 58 years after independence, we struggle to provide it. Businesses, schools, homes, industry, hospitals are all affected. The nation will never develop should the status quo continue.”
They also added that the demonstration is to “demand action and solutions from both the government and the Electricity of Company Ghana (ECG).”
In a related development, the Minister of Power, Mr Kwabena Donkor has promised that the power situation will end before end of year, 2015.
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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana