The moment every soccer enthusiast is waiting for is here. If it does not come to mind what I’m referring to as the ‘moment’, then you are probably not a soccer fan. I am referring to the World Cup season. Majority, if not all Ghanaians, are expecting to catch the World Cup fever…
One ought not to spend bunch of money to take a trip to Brazil before he/she can tap into the fever. At the comfort of your home, you can get glued to either your 1960 hunch-back television set or your 21st century 3D plasma TV to enjoy all the matches and discussions.
However, we all know the current state of affairs of electricity distribution in Ghana. There is not a single day that lights have will not be cut off without any tangible reason from generators (VRA), transmitters (GridCo), and distributors (ECG).
All manner of insults and curses are hurled on ECG every single day by angry Ghanaians, yet, we see no change. Electricity tariffs are being increased almost every month with the excuse of providing better services to Ghanaians. It becomes very annoying and unfortunate when the promised ‘better services’ become ‘bitter services’.
Among other things, there are times when the providers we pay money to provide electricity for us don’t have electricity at their offices themselves. If such is the case, how then can we even put our trust in them in the first place?
It has become so rampant (Mondays – Sundays) that, some Ghanaians who do not even have the means to afford three-square meals have to save and buy generators for themselves; just to better their boring lives made possible by ECG.
It beats my imagination as to what really causes such mess all the time without having a permanent solution to it.
Ghanaians as at now do not know what to expect from ECG during this World Cup season. For once, they might have the interest of Ghanaians at heart and decide to provide constant flow of electricity. I can visualize how happy Ghanaians are going to be if such a thing happens.
In view of this, GhanaCelebrities.Com decided to place a call to the Public Relations Officer of ECG to find out the way forward for Ghanaians during the World Cup season. Efforts to reach him proved futile, as his phone was switched off, possibly due to flat battery. We believe he might also be having light out in his area so he could not charge his phone.
The question we are asking is; is there any hope for Ghanaians – in relation to constant flow of electricity -this World Cup season?
If the provider himself does not have electricity, how can he provide?
ECG says the water level is low hence the load shedding. smh
They have been saying that since the birth of Kwame Nkrumah
lol
Tweaa ECG will never change. They will even leave the light on when Ghana is not playing and the day Ghana is playing, they will stupidly cut it off. Nkwasiasem ara kwa.
I like this part “In view of this, GhanaCelebrities.Com decided to place a call to the Public Relations Officer of ECG to find out the way forward for Ghanaians during the World Cup season. Efforts to reach him proved futile, as his phone was switched off, possibly due to flat battery. We believe he might also be having light out in his area so he could not charge his phone”
Good one there lol
You want to depend on ECG for the world cup? then you will be disappointed BIG TIME because they will do the usual and put the lights off when it matters. Those people dont care
The company that you can least trust in Ghana is ECG. The issue of ‘dumsor dumsor’ has gone on for God knows how long, yet there hasn’t being any solution to it. Maybe the problem with this issue is just like HIV-AIDS, there is no known cure.
Majority of people do not know ECG supplies power to only 6 regions in Ghana. Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and West receive electricity form NEDCo, a subsidiary of VRA. Even with the 6 regions, see how they are suffering to provide electricity, how much more if it were to be the whole of Ghana?
It is understandable when one or two generation station go down, because that will mean we have to depend on the few megawatts of power generated. But not when all generation stations are working in their full capacity.
They are only focusing on hydro and thermal power, when they can focus on solar as well. Thermal is very expensive, and its draining the nation’s coffers.