{"id":1874,"date":"2024-01-13T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2024-01-13T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:46:42","slug":"power-outages-over-energy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/power-outages-over-energy-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outages Over- Energy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recent weeks, most regions in the country experienced light-out popularly known in the local dialect as &#8220;Dumsor&#8221; which explains switch on &#8220;sor&#8221;, switch off &#8220;dum&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of Ghanaians have expressed displeasure in the new development which seems to stunt the growth of businesses, and this places homes in discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a bit unexpected for the ruling party NPP that preaches against the Opposition Party NDC when the country experienced long hours of Dumsor during their regime.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1888 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 279px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 279\/181;width:650px;height:auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Benevolent and concerned citizens have urged the government to accept the situation, and notify them with light load-shedding to help them plan their activities and businesses well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Minister of Energy, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has assured Ghanaians that the power outages is over after Government pays $10m from the debt the country owes WAPCO. Though many citizens see his words as mere political gimmick, they are hoping these words are true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, most regions in the country experienced light-out popularly known in the local dialect as &#8220;Dumsor&#8221; which explains switch on &#8220;sor&#8221;, switch off &#8220;dum&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-lifestyle","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}