There is a total blackout currently in some parts of the country.
Some places including Lapaz, Abeka, Sowutum, Kasoa, Tema, Kwashieman, Odorkor, Awoshie and parts of northern Ghana are currently without light.
With regards to northern Ghana, the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO) attributed the situation to a “system failure.”
They have however assured the general public that efforts are being made to identify the problem and fix it as soon as possible.
“The total outage we’re currently experiencing is as a result of system disturbances on NEDCO’s network. We’ve however been assured that they are doing everything humanly possible to identify, fix and restore supply as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.”, a release from NEDCO stated.
This comes weeks after the Electricity Company of Ghana handed over operations of the company to Power Distribution Services (PDS).
The takeover took place in February 2019.
PDS is expected to turnaround the operations of ECG to make it profitable.
In addition, the new management is expected to improve access to electricity while cutting down on waste in the system to block all leakages that drain the financials of ECG.
Explaining the situation in Accra, PDS in a statement, indicated that the power outage is as a result of technical challenges.
The company promised to address the challenges with immediate effect.
“The Power Distribution Services Ghana (PDS), wishes to inform the general public especially our cherished customers that, due to technical challenges upstream, power supply to our Mallam Bulk Supply Point and Graphic Road has been curtailed. This has caused power outage within the Western and the Central parts of Accra. Immediately the situation is rectified, power supply will be restored to affected customers. The inconvenience is very much regretted.”
Source: citi
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Please it’s not only Accra . If you should see what is happening in central region you will be surprised. It goes on and off like someone is just playing with the switch so poor PDS
So now it's only evening time dat they can off the lights see how ***barred word*** re stealing our tins and hurting others why hun we re suffering paaaaa at Kasoa ofankor u can't even sleep u have lock ur door they will still unlock it and come and steal ur tins Nana u better do something about this dumsor cuz its getting out of hands why,even u black man koraaaa u can't take care of the company and u sold it to a white man
PDS- proper dum'sor
This is what u get when u just change ECG at the time that they are finally getting to stable the power in the country and bring in a private sector from a different country that is not going to treat the nation as their own. This is even more than domsor this is worst the painful part is the people making this decision for the country do not even feel light Out for a second it’s rather the taxpayers in the country that suffer the situation
Yesterday, people of Takoradi had total blackout after ECG was handed to PDS. As I'm passing my comment this afternoon, we are still enjoying darkness... Please, I'm pleading with the government to allow the ECG to take back their work because PDS has nothing good for Ghanaians
just a welcome ceremony from pds to customers....lol