Ghana's ECG cuts electricity to parliament over $1.8m debt - BBC News

The outage interrupted a debate on the president's State of the Nation speech before a generator kicked in.

5 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AFPImage caption, A back-up generator was used to power parliament's main chamber until electricity was restored later in the dayGloria Aradi & Thomas NaadiBBC News, Nairobi & AccraThe state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m Ghanaian cedi ($1.8m; £1.4m).

The outage interrupted a debate on the president's State of the Nation speech.

A video shared by local media showed MPs in the dimly lit chamber chanting: "Dumsor, dumsor", which means power outage in the local Akan language.

Local media reported that a back-up power generator restored power to the chamber a few minutes later.

But other parts of the parliament building remained without power for most of the day before supplies were restored.

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