Apaak lauds PURC for exposing ECG’s lies over ‘dumsor’

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has lauded the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) for exposing the Electricity Company of Ghana.

This comes on the back of the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) saying that the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) attribution of power outages during peak hours to transformer faults is inaccurate.

The Commission in March requested directed the ECG to furnish with it data relating to all transformers and power outages that had occurred in the country.

But PURC after analyzing the data submitted by ECG says it has established that only 3 out of the 647 outage incidents that occurred between 7 pm and 11 pm from January up until March 18, 2024, were related to transformers overload.

Commenting on the matter, the Builsa South lawmaker stated that the PURC deserves commendation on their actions against the ECG.

“Rather than do the needful by giving us a load management timetable so that Ghanaians can plan, ECG has resorted to barefaced lies in an infantile attempt to cover up. The PURC must be highly commended for boldly exposing this prevaricating government and its appointees on the ECG board.

“This disregard for Ghanaians and the laws of the land are additional reasons why Ghanaians must vote out the NPP in the national polls later this year. #DumsorMustStop,” he stated.

Dr. Apaak also stated that the government cannot deny that there is a power crisis in the country and do the needful for citizens to plan their lives.

“GIVE US A DUMSOR TIMETABLE: The shameless attempt to deny the presence of the current self-evident DUMSOR is a very idiotic strategy by this failed Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP gov’t.

“Is Dumsor (Akan pronunciation: [dum sɔ] ‘off and on’) not defined as a persistent, irregular, and unpredictable electric power outage? Is this not what Ghanaians are experiencing? How can the ECG and government officials tell Ghanaians there is no DUMSOR when Ghanaians live and feel it?” Dr. Apaak quizzed.

Source: Today.com.gh