Majority Leader Alexander, Afenyo-Markin has said the recent #dumsormuststopvigil, spearheaded by actress Yvonne Nelson, should serve as a wake-up call to the Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, urging him to address the issue of erratic power supply.

Actress Yvonne Nelson led the #DumsorMustStop protest on Saturday, June 8, starting from the main gate of the University of Ghana. The demonstrators then proceeded to the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout, where organisers delivered a statement.

Despite initial attempts to prevent the protest due to disagreements over the routes, about thirty police personnel were deployed to oversee the demonstration.

Addressing teachers during the distribution of laptops in Parliament as part of his one-teacher-one-laptop initiative, Mr Afenyo-Markin assured them that efforts were underway to resolve the power outages.

“Ghana, we have made it, as a member of ECOWAS Parliament. If I look at the developments in the sub-region, even power, Nigeria, I’m just coming from Abuja, almost every household has a generator. You go to Benin, Togo, La Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Conakry, Equitorial Guinea, Cape Verde, they don’t have reliable power. We do, but even so, it’s not enough.

“So, we should continue to drum home on the issue, our sister Yvonne Nelson, did some demonstration. Even though we’re solving the problem in the energy sector, that alone will be a wake-up call to pinch the Minister of Energy, that hey, let me solve it and get it done completely. After all, that’s why the people voted for us,” he said.