{"id":480104,"date":"2011-09-01T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/09\/01\/tamale-residents-storm-vra-offices-over-power-cuts\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:54:16","slug":"tamale-residents-storm-vra-offices-over-power-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/09\/01\/tamale-residents-storm-vra-offices-over-power-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamale residents storm VRA offices over power cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td valign=\"top\">Thursday, 01 September 2011 14:54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"22.2139830508\">\n<td valign=\"top\" readability=\"26.656779661\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4d57vra250x150.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Some residents of Tamale Central Thursday morning besieged the offices of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to protest what they describe as the rampant power outages in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The residents say the frequency of the power outages is unacceptable and are demanding an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Northern regional correspondent Mahama Shaibu reported that the angry mob was worried because, according to them, their appliances constantly broke down as a result of the power cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026every day we come to report. At least if we don\u2019t have light off at all, at least [every two days we experience it]. And when we get the light-off at about 3pm or 2pm, we get it the following day,\u201d a resident lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve complained to them [for too long] we don\u2019t know what is the problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials at the Authority have yet to comment on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Joy News<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Thursday, 01 September 2011 14:54 Some residents of Tamale Central Thursday morning besieged the offices of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to protest what they describe as the rampant power outages in the area. The residents say the frequency of the power outages is unacceptable and are demanding an explanation. Northern regional correspondent Mahama Shaibu reported that the angry mob was worried because, according to them, their appliances constantly broke down as a result of the power cuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tamale residents storm VRA offices over power cuts - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/09\/01\/tamale-residents-storm-vra-offices-over-power-cuts\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tamale residents storm VRA offices over power cuts - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Thursday, 01 September 2011 14:54 Some residents of Tamale Central Thursday morning besieged the offices of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to protest what they describe as the rampant power outages in the area. 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