The Minority Caucus has stepped up pressure on President John Dramani Mahama’s government, calling for swift, firm steps to tackle the latest bout of recurring blackouts nationwide known in Ghanaian parlance as dumsor.
Speaking at a press briefing on April 28, Afigya Kwabre North MP, Collins Adomako-Mensah, faulted the administration’s response and dismissed claims that the outages stemmed mainly from a recent fire at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) substation in Akosombo.
He said the ongoing power problems began long before the April 23 incident and cannot be pinned on one event. He argued that the Akosombo substation fire may have briefly worsened supply but does not account for the drawn-out, repeated outages hitting many areas 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.”In several parts of Ghana, homes are still facing sudden power cuts, with mounting calls for a clear load-shedding schedule and lasting reforms to secure the energy sector.
