The Majority Leader Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markinhas lauded the organisers of the recent #DumsorMustStop vigil.
According to him, the vigil will serve as a wake-up call to Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh to address the ongoing issues with erratic power supply.
On Saturday, June 8, actress Yvonne Nelson led the #DumsorMustStop protest, commencing the vigil at the main gate of the University of Ghana. The protesters then proceeded to the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout, where the organizers delivered a statement. Despite earlier attempts to thwart the protest over disagreements on the location, about thirty police personnel were deployed to oversee the event.
Speaking to teachers during the distribution of laptops within the Effutu municipality as part of his one-teacher-one-laptop initiative, Mr Afenyo-Markin assured them that the power outages will soon be a thing of the past.
“Ghana, we have made it, as a member of ECOWAS Parliament, if I look at the developments in the sub-region, even power, Nigeria, I’m just coming from Abuja, almost every household has a Gen set. You go to Benin, Togo, La Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Conakry, Equitorial Guinea, Cape Verde. They don’t have reliable power, we do, but even so, it’s not enough.”
“So, we should continue to drum home on the issue, our sister Yvonne Nelson, did some demonstration. Even though we’re solving the problem in the energy sector, that alone will be a wake-up call to pinch the minister of energy, that hey, let me solve it and get it done completely. After all, that’s why the people voted for us,” he said.
