Accra is in the Dark Ages.
Ever since the load-shedding started, the country’s electricity provider ECG, has decided to ride on the back of the "load management programme" by continuing to deliver increasingly execrable service.
Yesterday, on an evening that was not supposed to experience load-shedding at 6pm, the lights went out, eliciting a collective sigh of resignation and frustration all-rolled-in-one. Calls were made, and it transpired that there was "a fault" in one of the stations near the motorway of Tema. Later, I found out that it wasn’t quite near the motorway, but somewhere around Tema. Not to mention the lack of consistency in the lies (you don’t even know where the genesis of the so-called fault is?) but to buttress all that is the frustration associated with feeling the lights will come on soon when you call, only to find out that the problem has not finished being worked on!
So it was that I would call around 7pm, only to be told that by 9pm, it would return. Dinner came and dinner went among intermittent sounds of generators in the silence, and we still experienced no power. By 10pm, my family and I were too tired to do anything, and so sleep overcame us not too long after that.
Suffice to say, my habitual evening walk with my pet dog, Fenix, revealed an estate engulfed in darkness, with a few generators left and right thundering into the night…and through out it.
Without a doubt, mosquitoes that work in the night had a field day, but I couldn’t help wondering who was truly bleeding us dry: the mosquitoes – or Electricity Company of Ghana?!
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accra; ghana;mosquitoes;darkness ghana;ghana electricity;ghana ECG;
7 comments:
I cannot even imagine how it would be to like live in the circumstances you are described. The frustrations would drive me insane. Imagine someone like me who writes and does so mostly at night! Of course Ghana’s future would be determined by how much electricity generates to support itself and how reliable the electricity is. But how do you convey this to the workers of the electricity corporation who have more pressing needs: feeding the children, feeding and clothing and housing themselves, saving for funeral celebrations, ete etc. Vicious circle be damned.
Great Blog but sad problems
Kisses
Hmm Emma, only God knows when this loading shedding stuff in Ghana would stop. I understand the water level in the Akosombo Dam is rising, yet we have to wait till the end of November before there would be a review, either to stop it or continue with it. God Save us.
Cheers
chiccheckto--vicious circle, indeed!
pinkinha--thanks for your visit
enoch--let's hope it's stopped. We might have to find more innovative ways of conserving energy! Thx for visiting! Hope you got the invite to join GHAJICT
Sounds terrible... and kind of like every other African country I've been too, as well as Haiti.
Do watch out for mosquitoes. Dengue sucks.
hey, i stumbled across your blog by accident today and it's soo nice to see a ghanaian blogging about Accra. I 'm a ghanaian living in the US and i do miss home. i wanted to come this christmas but i was too late buying a ticket. talking about the 50years celebration next year ( i read somewhere on your blog) makes me wish soo bad i could be home. I love your blog, keep it up... its awesome to read from home
beaver--hope you're keeping very well; thanks for le conseil;-)
GIFEX--many thanks for your kind words; hope you are able to get into blogging, too. Would be nice reading about a Ghanaian in the US...there are a few out there, but anyone has their unique style, so why not give it a try? WOuld be happy to help, and foster synergies between us if you're interested! Cheers!
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