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Some youth in the Garu and Tempane districts of the Upper East Region have taken to the streets to express their displeasure about what they say has been prolonged power outages in their communities.
The residents clad in red, say the demonstration was to petition the two District Chief Executives (DCEs) in the area to find lasting solutions to the problem.
According to group lead, Paul Ayuonga, the power outages, otherwise called ‘dumsor’ have persisted for about four years and have negatively impacted their businesses.
“Because of the frequent and unnecessary power outages, it has affected us so much both economically in the health sector and even businesses have collapsed. As we speak, there is no electricity in both districts that is how it has been for four years.
“Businesses have collapsed. Cold stores; fish, beef, whatever meat that people have kept in their fridges to transact business have gotten rotten,” he lamented.
He stressed that the cost of living has gone up as residents now travel long distances to access services that were initially close to them.
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