The organisers of the #dumsormuststop vigil have declared that no amount of intimidation, frustration, or attacks will prevent them from arranging the second edition of the demonstration.
One of the organisers, Henry Osei Akoto, stated that the government has not been candid with the people over the energy crisis, popularly known as dumsor.
The situation he lamented was affecting businesses and causing havoc, yet the government claims it has stopped.
Contrary to the President’s guarantee that Dumsor was no longer in existence, Mr. Osei Akoto stated that the government has devised a plan in which lights are kept on in some areas and turned off in others for days, so that if it appears, the matter has been resolved.
He alleged that there are some elements in the Ghana Police Service who want to frustrate them to satisfy their paymasters.
He revealed that due to the back and forth with the police, they had to change the original venue for the vigil from Revolution Square, which is near the Jubilee House, to the University of Ghana and Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout, even before the police went to court to seek an injunction to prevent them from holding the vigil at the original location.
He told host Kwabena Agyapong on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM that the police had agreed to their original plan of holding the vigil at the first location but suddenly changed their mind and subsequently went to court to stop them.
He disclosed that the new date for the vigil has been moved to June 8, 2024, and it will start in front of the University of Ghana campus and end at the Tetteh Quarshie Roundabout.
“We also want to assure Ghanaians that on June 8, the dumsor vigil is coming on. Let me tell you what is happening: the President, his Vice, and the Energy Minister are trying to deceive Ghanaians. What they are doing is that they can keep the lights in Legon for three days, and so the people will think the dumsor has stopped. But go to East Legon and other communities across the country; they do not have lights. Some people sleep in darkness for three days without light. It is so pathetic. The situation is so bad, and instead of the president being candid and speaking the truth, he came to lie to us and say that the dumsor had stopped.
He should know that power resides in the people. We have a constitutional right to hold the protest. What we have to do is inform the police. Enough is enough. It seems Nana Addo is taking us for granted. The electricity we consume is not free, and so we have every right to demand power. When there is a challenge, we have a responsibility to voice our concerns. The ongoing challenge is about money to buy the fuel to power our termal plants. We have credibility issues, and so we are unable to go out there and buy fuel to power our plans. All we are demanding from the President is stable powder, and if he fails to do that, we will make it impossible for him to sleep.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
