Renowned private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has slammed the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government for failing to come up with a schedule for the ongoing erratic power supply (dumsor) to help Ghanaian households and businesses plan their lives better.

According to him, the only reason that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is refusing to come up with a dumsor timetable is the political consequences of such a move.

Kpebu, who made these remarks in an interview on TV3’s The Keypoints programme on April 23, 2024, added that the government knows a dumsor timetable would certainly settle the fate of the NPP in the pending December 7, 2024, general elections.

“It (the refusal to devise a dumsor timetable) is nothing new. It just reiterates the statement by Socrates that ‘Politicians are crooks’, that's it; rooks and are busy gaslighting us.

“Because commonsensically, this dumsor timetable should have been out. But you see how they keep making it look like rocket science, shifting blame? ECG keeps saying that they don't get enough notice from GRIDCo, so it's impossible to get a timetable.

“Then you find Matthew Opoku Prempeh (the Minister for Energy), come to insult us after we've paid him with taxes and even has not had the courtesy to render an unqualified apology to us. And it goes on and on and on,” he said.

The lawyer added, “So what they're saying is that if this timetable comes out, then it means that they are sinking themselves, you know, because election 2024 is just in the corner.”

Watch his remarks in the video below:

The NPP knows if the 'dumsor' timetable comes out, they will sink themselves with the 2024 elections coming up - Lawyer Martin Kpebu#TheKeyPoints pic.twitter.com/ic4Fq74EV1

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