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BREAKING: Workers of the electricity company embarks on strike today amid ‘Dumsor’.

 Strike action is probably the language embarked on when an individual, group of people or an institution in general when there is any uncertainty in administration.

 In Ghana , we see a lot of government workers going on strike —mostly teachers, nurses, police among others but it is quite rare to here that workers of Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) embark on strike.

 That notwithstanding, ECG workers are to embark on a two-hour sit-down strike today, Monday, April 26, 2021, across the country.

 A statement was released from the Authorities to all units of the sector’s working force that they should all observe the strike action. Meanwhile it is said to commence around 8:00am to 10:00am thereabout. 

 The reason for the strike action was clarified by the release as reiterating their stance on the removal the removal of the current Managing Director of the company over what they describe as “incompetence” on his part.

“A clear example is the award of contracts of some Six (6) substations where the recommendations of the evaluation committee were sidestepped and awarded to other companies,” the Junior and Senior Staff Union said in a statement.

“The Union decries the alarming rate at which the company’s technical and commercial losses are galloping. A conservative estimate puts the current system loss figure at over 34% as of February 2021, and there are no concrete strategies in place to bring them down in the short and medium-term,” an except from the statement.

They said that the MD’s continuous stay at post will collapse the electricity distribution company;

 “…he is grossly deficient when it comes to matters relating to administrative and corporate governance”.

 Meanwhile no guidelines has being currently given on what uses of power(electricity) are to do as the strike action is being undertaking.

 However Ghanaians are to hope that nothing goes wrong with the electricity transmission and services as they embark on their due strike action.

 Meanwhile the current fluctuations in the supply of the power is another thing Ghanaians are battling with currently although the authorities said the situation shouldn’t be deemed as the term describes, ‘DUMSOR’.