Supply timetable or stop torture: Ghanaians roar at Government over “dumsor”

Calls have increased from a section of Ghanaians for the government to release a power rationing schedule following recent outages, locally referred to as “dumsor.”

Although power supply has been inconsistent for the past few months, it has worsened in the past few days, especially in Greater Accra, with households and businesses complaining severely about the state of affairs.

“It is terrible here; I run a cold store, and this electricity situation has made me spend more to repair my heavy-duty fridges almost every week. It’s really affecting my business,”  Asiamah, a cold store operator at James Town, lamented.

Hawa, a housewife at Michelle Camp, said, “They should do something about these outages. Although I am at home most of the time, I sell art crafts to my customers remotely, which I use electricity at some point to produce. I also cater for the kids when they return from school. Sometimes the lights go off without warning, which affects my activities for the day. There have been times I have been unable to meet customer orders due to the dumsor.”

Some Ghanaians have also taken to social media to register their anger at authorities, urging an immediate stoppage to the power fluctuations or the provision of a reliable load-shedding schedule. 

As of Tuesday, April 22^nd, the hashtag #DumsorMustStop has been trending on X, formerly Twitter, with thousands of X users bashing the government over power issues.