{"id":1091516,"date":"2022-05-18T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/18\/yvonne-nelsons-dumor-vigil-wasnt-necessary\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:54:55","slug":"yvonne-nelsons-dumor-vigil-wasnt-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/18\/yvonne-nelsons-dumor-vigil-wasnt-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Nelson&#8217;s &#8216;Dumor&#8217; Vigil Wasn&#8217;t Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Actor and politician John Dumelo has said that the \u201cDumsor\u201d vigil held during the tenure of former President John Mahama in 2015 by actress Yvonne Nelson was unnecessary. <\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, award-winning Ghanaian actress,\u00a0Yvonne Nelson, organized a protest dubbed \u2018DumsorMustStop\u00a0Vigil\u2019. Demonstrators march in Accra dressed in black and carrying torches and lanterns to signal their frustration with the erratic power supply.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-read-also-my-son-told-me-the-secret-about-his-death-he-vomited-9-needles-blood-actor-osei-tutu-s-mum-reveals\">READ ALSO: My Son Told Me The Secret About His Death; He Vomited 9 Needles &#038; Blood \u2013 Actor Osei Tutu\u2019s Mum Reveals<\/h4>\n<p>In an interview on Adom TV\u2019s Ahosepe Xtra Show, John Dumelo stated that the government was solving the power crisis before Yvonne Nelson led the protest so he finds her actions unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it was necessary. At that time the government said it will fix the problem and before he [Mahama] left, he fixed it. I will not fault anyone, but you should have given him [Mahama] the due credit for solving it\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>John Dumelo has also thrown a challenge to the actress to stage another demonstration against the ruling party. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to do another demonstration for the E-levy. I paid 5,000 cedis and paid almost 70-something cedis. If I am to send that amount every day, imagine how much I will have to pay as E-levy\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: Sonnie Badu Speaks On Why It Is Expensive To Book Him For Shows<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8_Sgu9mHgQs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yvonne Nelson, John Dumelo &amp; Majid Michel discuss Mahama, E-Levy &amp; Dumsor demonstration\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8_Sgu9mHgQs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"0d255315d2e0d3d803b3edcf-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and politician John Dumelo has said that the \u201cDumsor\u201d vigil held during the tenure of former President John Mahama in 2015 by actress Yvonne Nelson was unnecessary. In 2015, award-winning Ghanaian actress,\u00a0Yvonne Nelson, organized a protest dubbed \u2018DumsorMustStop\u00a0Vigil\u2019. Demonstrators march in Accra dressed in black and carrying torches and lanterns to signal their frustration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14055,10404,14056,8228,3427],"class_list":["post-1091516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dumor","tag-nelsons","tag-vigil","tag-wasnt","tag-yvonne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}