Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, has admitted facing mounting pressure from residents due to the recent erratic power supply, with the most severe outage occurring over the weekend.

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For several weeks, locals in the Ashanti Region have voiced their frustration over the inconsistent electricity supply, which has disrupted businesses and household activities.

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Dr. Amoakohene noted that he has been overwhelmed with appeals from residents demanding urgent intervention to address the worsening power situation.

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“For some few months now, we have been having power outages. Others have blamed it on sabotage, and others have blamed it on a lot of reasons.

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“Sunday, March 16, was epic, it [dumsor] was almost all over the districts and municipalities, so, I have had a lot of complaints from most of the communities. We believe that you are in to solve problems in the energy sector,” he stated.

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Mounting frustrations over inconsistent electricity supply have led Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, to travel to the Ashanti Region for discussions with key players in the energy sector.

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To help resolve the issue, the Minister is set to evaluate ongoing power infrastructure upgrades in the region.

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Mr. Jinapor blamed the current electricity challenges on what he termed a frail energy sector handed over to the present government.

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However, he outlined a range of strategies designed to enhance power stability and ease the region’s electricity difficulties.

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“Ashanti region peculiarly has a major problem with power supply, it’s not just the supply of the power into the grid, but also evacuating the power and distributing it. GRIDCo is injecting some major transformers to stabilise the power supply.

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“ECG is also doing some major works and we expect that the power supply situation in Kumasi and its environs and Ashanti Region in general should see significant improvements,” he stated.

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