Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Haruna Mohammed, has dismissed suggestions that the full restoration of power generation at the Akosombo Dam will bring an immediate end to the country’s recent power outages, insisting that the challenges within the energy sector run deeper than the fire incident at the facility.
His comments follow the restoration of operations at the plant after a fire outbreak disrupted generation, with expectations that the development would ease pressure on the national grid and improve electricity supply.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Big Issue on Saturday, May 2, Haruna argued that the current supply challenges existed long before the Akosombo incident and cannot be attributed solely to the disruption at the hydroelectric facility.
According to him, available generation figures from the days leading up to the incident point to an existing deficit between electricity supply and national demand.
“So if you streamline it down to the five days, even five days before the incident happened, our peak generation was 3,332 megawatts of power, but our peak demand was still 4,400. That tells you that there is a difference of over thousand… So you cannot ascribe the happening at Akosombo. Akosombo just came to compound one of the issues,” he stated.
He further criticised the governing National Democratic Congress, arguing that restoring Akosombo alone will not resolve the broader energy sector challenges.
He maintained that the outages reflect deeper structural issues and accused the current administration of neglecting policies inherited from the previous government to sustain power sector stability.
