The Minority in Parliament has mounted pressure on President John Dramani Mahama’s administration demanding immediate and decisive action to address the recent wave of persistent power outages across the country.
Addresing a press conference held on Tuesday, April 28, the Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre North, Collins Adomako-Mensah, criticised the government’s handling of the situation and rejected suggestions that the outages are primarily the result of a recent fire incident at the Ghana Grid Company substation at Akosombo.
According to Adomako-Mensah, the current energy challenges, commonly referred to as dumsor, have been ongoing well before the April 23 incident and should not be attributed to a single event.
He argued that the fire outbreak at the Akosombo substation may have worsened the situation temporarily but insisted it does not explain the prolonged and recurring outages experienced in many parts of the country 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.”
Across several parts of Ghana, households continue to experience unannounced power cuts, with calls intensifying for a clear load-shedding timetable and long-term reforms to stabilise the energy sector.
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