PDS credits GRIDco with Thursday's intermittent power outages

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A series of power cuts that hit southern Accra on Thursday morning is "due to the instability of GRIDco's power supply," according to the Power Distribution Service (PDS).

PDS informed its consumers that they were working to remedy the situation and ensured that power supply would be restored soon.

"The inconvenience is really regretted," reads a statement from the PDS.

Last week, PDS announced that it would cut electricity in some parts of the country. The request was ordered to allow GRIDCo to build a 330 kV overhead line between Kumasi and Aboadze.

The blackout lasted six consecutive days – from April 11 to 17 – and affected areas such as Tarkwa, Bogoso, Asawinso and Juaboso, among others.

At the same time, the Energy Security Institute condemned the news of the Ministry of Energy last week, suggesting that someone would have deliberately set fire to a gas pipeline in the Tema enclave to keep Ghanaians without electricity, according to a statement.

Peter Amewu is the Minister of Energy.

The Ghana think tank said that shortly after the ministry's statement, representatives of the group visited the pipeline only to find that it was under construction and filled with raw water.

"IES is concerned about the position of the government represented by the Ministry of Energy vis-à-vis the recent acts of vandalism on energy infrastructure," said a representative of the IEA. ; IES.

IES compared the words of the ministry – made by Nana Kofi Oppong Damoah, chief of communication and public relations of the Ministry of Energy – to those of Peter Amewu, head of the ministry.

According to the organization, Amewu wanted to blame the issue on political sabotage, just as it did during the dismantling of the GRIDCo transmission tower in Tema. IES says the energy minister has started pointing fingers even before investigations begin, the statement said.

"Even though the IES believes that any form of sabotage of the country's electrical installations must be unequivocally condemned, the situation in which the political actors use it to sow fear and panic and eventually win the sympathy of the Ghanaians; is just as bad in taste. "