Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Anger and frustration
is setting in with Ghana’s famous entertainment stars voicing their feelings
‘openly’ about the perennial lights off that is crippling the economy.
Popular actress
Yvonne Nelson says the assurances given by the John Mahama-led NDC government
to fix the perennial electricity crisis are all ‘lies’.
She took to social
media platform Twitter yesterday, to vent her frustration over the government’s
inability to solve the power crisis known in local parlance as Dumsor.
Later she was
interviewed by international broadcaster BBC in relation to a Twitter campaign
trending with the hashtag #DumsorMustStop that appears to aim at putting
pressure on the government to end the dumsor nightmare which is fast crippling
the economy amid massive job lay-offs.
Power barges
The award winning
Ghanaian actress said on BBC World Service Radio that “the government actually
promised they were sending power barges to help the situation. They told us it
was coming last month [April] and today is 1st May. So it is pretty much full
of lies. They keep telling us lies and we are not seeing any results.”
Dumsor exams
She said for instance
that students “writing exams can’t learn because of dumsor. Businesses are
closing down, companies are laying off workers. We can’t function as a nation,
we need electricity to function,” adding “they are just telling lies and taking
Ghanaians for granted,” she said.
The #DumsorMustStop
Campaign received massive support from Ghanaians on the social media platform
with celebrities like top rapper Sarkodie, actress Lydia Forson among others
joining in.
Sarkodie said Dumsor
must stop while Lydia Forson said “I stopped writing about President Mahama
when he didn't respond to my last letter”
Dumsor is real
Earlier, Yvonne had
said on her Twitter page that “It’s so sad; this dumsor crap is here to stay!
They will just not tell the people the truth! They’ll wait and let us get used
to it.”
Yvonne continued:
“The minute people in government start investing in generators will be the end
of Ghana. They will make sure the dumsor continues forever and ever.”
The actress stated
further: “I can never get used to it! How does our economy grow? Businesses are
closing! Kids in school are failing! What a shame.
“The President
doesn’t even see our tweets to him because the page is obviously not run by
him. What’s the use? If you don’t handle your account? [sic] Ghanaians, wake up!
We seriously don’t deserve this! “How will our country be productive? We can’t
function! It’s sooo wrong!” Yvonne
concluded.
Sarkodie
Award winning Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, known in real life as Michael
Owusu Addo, has described Ghana's leaders as selfish.
The rapper expressed his frustrations on twitter about living
conditions in Ghana and how the country’s leaders are not paying attention
to the needs of the citizenry
He wrote, “It ain’t easy being a president and I don’t think I can but
if you choose to, you can’t be selfish… It is only for the selfless #Leader.”
“Watch and listen to them carefully and see if they care about us,” he
added.
According to him, it is amazing how Ghanaians manage to survive under
such harsh economic situations only to forget about the challenges they went
through when it’s time for elections.
“It’s a miracle how we survive down here you know, guess dumsor will
pause when election is closer right?? Smh and [my] people will fall for it!!!
After all it’s caused,” he said.
The ‘Inflation’ rapper believes that voting for a leader in Ghana
now is only to select a leader who maltreats the citizenry.
“What voting means down here: choosing who’s best to maltreat
me….simple, see how we scream when our lights are back on like they doing us a
favor smh…And we think we have lights???”, he stated.
“We been treated like kids down here ma people and it’s sad…They
succeeded in programming our minds not to focus on important issues, all these
fake political talk shows with people battling on who speaks better English and
not sharing ideas on way forward”, Sarkodie added.
John Dumelo
Perhaps, the
celebrity who received harsh criticism from the public was actor John Dumelo
when he asked Ghanaians to have patience with President Mahama because “Rome
was not built in a day.”
He was quoted by a
radio station as saying last Thursday that “We should just give him [Mahama]
time to solve the problems. The problems are there but it’s four years; Rome
wasn’t built in a day… and if after 2016 the problems are not solved, then we
know what to do.
“But I think a lot of
people are putting pressure on him and it’s not as if he doesn’t want to solve
the problems; he does so we should just give him time,” he added.
He later backtracked
by claiming that he was ‘misred’ and ‘miscostrued’.
Dumelo who appeared
in endorsed John Mahama for President campaigns in 2012 said “I feel what is
going on in the country. I have had to lay off 20 of my workers and close down
2 of my companies because of the economic crises. I feel the workers pain. You
think I’m happy laying off my workers? You think I’m happy running a company at
a lose? I’m not.”
The following are
some of the tweets by famous stars Sarkodie, Yvonne Nelson and the followers:
“I want a president who will be addressing
same issues as the people every second so I know he cares but our voices must be
heard! I'm just tired of all of this! Their promises makes me sick! Love you
more for this...It ain't easy being a president and I don't think I can but if
you choose to you can't be selfish. It is only for the selfless...Guess dumsor
will pause when election is closer right?? Smh and ma people will fall for
it!!! After all it's caused ... What voting means down here : choosing who's
best to maltreat me ... Simple
We been treated like Kids Down here ma people and it's
sad ... They succeeded in programming our minds not to focus on important
issues...All these fake political talk shows with people battling on who speaks
better English and not sharing ideas on way forward...You see??? Same problem I
get from fam!! Fear!! but if our generation cud change and ask questions.... Kills
ma heart bro ... They did nothing to deserve this bro...See how we scream when
our lights back on like they doing us a favor smh ... And we think we have
rights??? Loads
of politicians are scared for their lives but know the truth on what's
happening but atleast they benefit directly we don't.
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