[ 2015-05-02 ]

Our government is just lying to us; Yvonne Nelson tells BBC
Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson has told the BBC
she does not believe any of the government's
promises to solve the power crisis.

“They are just lying to us,” a frustrated
Yvonne said.

She was speaking to the BBC about the erratic
power supply, popularly called dumsor about which
she has tweeted endlessly.

“We can’t function as a nation, we need
electricity to function,” she underscored.

The actress, who is leading a twitter campaign to
put pressure on the government to end the severe
load shedding, said the situation is affecting
everybody including students preparing for their
examinations, with massive lay-off and companies
shutting down.

“Sometimes when I am coming home, I’m scared,
I’m scared I’m going to get home and then the
lights would be off. It’s pretty alarming, the
whole dumsor situation is affecting everything; it
is affecting productivity in Ghana, and something
has to be done,” she said.

Another Ghanaian actor John Dumelo had asked his
compatriots to exercise patience with the
president because Rome was not built in a day.
Yvonne said she partly “agrees with him”.

She was, however, quick to make reference to the
emergency power barges which were initially billed
to arrive in April as promised but never came.

Meanwhile, the government has revised its notes on
the arrival of the emergency power barges. John
Jinapor, Deputy Power Minister told Joy News the
barges would now arrive somewhere September

“It’s pretty much full of lies. They keep
telling lies, we are not seeing any results. As a
leader he needs to deliver, we need results, he
has to fix this whole energy crisis. They are just
lying to us, pretty much. They are just taking
Ghanaians for granted and it is not
fair…something has to be done soon.”

Source - Joy News

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