By Lawrence Odoom/Phalonzy
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has issued a scathing rebuke of the government’s management of Ghana’s power sector, demanding an unqualified apology to citizens over the resurgence of intermittent outages, popularly known as ‘dumsor’.
Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Haruna Mohammed, accused the Mahama administration of reneging on its pledges to stabilize electricity supply, asserting that the government’s stewardship has precipitated a deterioration of the energy sector.
His remarks follow weeks of sporadic power cuts across multiple regions, despite repeated assurances from authorities that supply challenges had been resolved.
Appearing on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Saturday, May 2, Haruna Mohammed excoriated what he described as the administration’s wholesale abandonment of inherited energy sector policies, a move he contends has stunted growth and undermined reliability.
“…It’s a complete neglect of the energy sector policy that we have left for them. And that is where we are. It’s about time that the NDC comes out openly to apologize to the good people of Ghana and tell them that they lied to them in power and they cannot fix that,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Minister for Energy, John Abdulai Jinapor, has confirmed the full restoration of power generation at the Akosombo Dam after a disruption triggered by a fire outbreak at the Ghana Grid Company substation in Akosombo.
The incident precipitated the loss of more than 1,000 megawatts of power, sparking intermittent outages in several parts of the country.