The administration of President John Dramani Mahama is under increasing pressure from the minority in Parliament to take swift and decisive action in response to the current wave of ongoing power outages that have affected the whole nation.
Collins Adomako-Mensah, the member of parliament for Afigya Kwabre North, addressed a press conference on Tuesday, April 28, criticising the government’s handling of the situation and rejecting claims that the outages are mostly the result of a recent fire incident at the Ghana Grid Company substation at Akosombo.
Adomako-Mensah claims that the present energy problems, also known as dumsor, were present long before the April 23 incident and shouldn’t be linked to a single incident.
He maintained that while the Akosombo substation fire may have briefly made things worse, it does not account for the protracted and frequent outages that have been occurring throughout much of the nation since early 2025.
“I must state plainly and without qualification: Ghana’s power crisis, the dumsor that millions of Ghanaians have been enduring since January 2025, was not caused by any incident at Akosombo. It was caused by this government. The events of 23 April are the latest and most dramatic symptom of a power sector left to decay under the NDC’s incompetent stewardship.”
“The Mahama government must not be permitted to use this incident as a convenient alibi for a crisis that predates it by more than a year, and the NPP Minority will not allow that cynical rewriting of history to pass unchallenged.”
Calls for a clear load-shedding schedule and long-term changes to stable the energy industry are growing as people in various parts of Ghana continue to face unexpected power outages.
Source: newsthemegh.com