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“Dumsor,” is a Ghanaian term for frequent electricity power outages, and has actually affected the country’s economy by disrupting trading as well as transport operators activities at Kumasi Kejetia Market, damaging appliances, and causing significant financial losses for both small-scale industries and households.
The recent electricity power outages “Dumsor” is actually affecting Kejetia market traders and transport operators, says some of the traders at Kumasi Kejetia Market. Speaking to the section of the traders they disclosed, criminals always take advantage of the “Dumsor” to steal their market items, especially those traded in hardwares, clothes, footwear, toys among others. ” When there’s “dumsor” the whole Kejetia market becomes very dark you can’t even see properly if someone is even passing behind your own goods you’re hanging for sale you can’t see him that’s why they capitalize on it to remove our goods” they hinted. According to them the “dumsor” slows their sales and explains that when there’s dumsor passengers even don’t come to the bus terminals due to confidence tricksters ( atotobotomu) activities. The traders further disclosed that sometimes they sustain injuries when they step into gutters while hawking around loading buses due to the darkness in Kumasi Kejetia Market.
On their part the station master of Kumasi -Tarkwa and Bogoso Oteng Gyasi also hinted the “dumsor Is affecting their operations, saying theirs passengers could roaming around outside Kejetia lorry terminal for hours until the lights are on attributing it confidence tricksters activities (atotobotomu)
In trying to find out measures put in place to address the situation I went to the operations manager of the Kumasi Kejetia Market Nana Opoku Amankwah who according to currently there’s no any power plant to serve as backup.
Against this backdrop the recent power cuts, like those we are experiencing will be verily linked to a declining economy in Ghana if not checked.
Traders are compelled to invest in chargeable lights and backup power sources like generators to mitigate the effects of power cuts, adding to their operational costs.
However, a report we intercepted indicated the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), in a report, stated that Ghana lost about 1 billion dollars in 2014 alone because of dumsor.
Source: Elvisanokyenews.net/Isaac Nsiah Foster
