{"id":88658,"date":"2015-02-05T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=88658"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:04:12","slug":"dumsor-will-be-like-the-egyptians-we-shall-see-them-no-more-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=88658","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dumsor&#8217; will be like the Egyptians; we shall see them no more &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the growing skepticism among Ghanaians over how soon the energy crisis would end, government has moved to assure citizens that the problem will go away sooner than later.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Communications, Edward Omane Boamah\u00a0announced on his facebook page that\u00a0President Mahama will embark on a working visit to the Akosombo Dam today[Thursday].<\/p>\n<p>He admonished Ghanians to bare with the government and that they are working assiduously to solve\u00a0the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;LFGNNLm71JGUUSrIOK9JeUmAZkkG7yaP&#8221;]&#8221;Be patient in the face of the difficulties. Relief is on the way. Government acknowledges and shares in your pain. Short and medium term measures being implemented will ensure that the Egyptians that we see today, we shall see them no more as the book of Exodus puts it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time the President\u00a0has embarked on a similar working visit this week, to ascertain the cause of the worsening power crisis and put in place measures to address it.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama on Tuesday paid a working visit to the\u00a0Sunon Asogli Power Plant, the Cenit Thermal Power Plant and the VRA Thermal Plant all located at Kpone near Tema.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88159\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mahama-inspects-vra-thermal-plant-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88159\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mahama-inspects-vra-thermal-plant-5.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama pays working visit to Sunon Asogli plant\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahama pays working visit to Sunon Asogli plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During his visit, he\u00a0expressed confidence that Ghana would make it out of the current energy crisis it is experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that some key power plants in the country will soon be back on stream to compliment the ones in operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the growing skepticism among Ghanaians over how soon the energy crisis would end, government has moved to assure citizens that the problem will go away sooner than later. The Minister of Communications, Edward Omane Boamah\u00a0announced on his facebook page that\u00a0President Mahama will embark on a working visit to the Akosombo Dam today[Thursday]. He admonished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-88658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}