The Volta River Authority (VRA) has said it is unclear when power will be restored to Ghanaians. Yesterday around 9 pm, power supply to residents in the five regions of the north and parts of southern Ghana was interrupted.
Speaking to the Host of A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show, Samuel Mbura, the Upper East Regional Customer Services Officer of the VRA, Alhaji Abdulai Danjumah disclosed that attempts by his outfit to reach the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO), a transmission utility provider, have proved futile. Thus, VRA is unable to say when power will be restored.
“Unfortunately, this one [power outage] is from GRIDCO and we are not able to get answers from them yet. We called our contact in the Head Office, he said he has been calling them and they are not picking. We are also trying them here and they are not talking. So we are yet to get the reason why the power is off”.
“Information I have is that the whole north is off. We take our source from Techiman that supplies Upper West Region and Northern Region, then we [Upper East Region] take from the Northern Region. So Techiman is off, Suyani is off, Upper West Region is off, the whole of the north is off. You call them [GRIDCO] they are not ready to talk, you keep calling they stop picking your calls,” he explained.
He said the losses for VRA will be immeasurable.
Meanwhile, information available to A1 Radio from the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) indicates that the outage is as a result of a partial collapse of GRIDCO’s national network.
Background
Many parts of the country were thrown into darkness following an unexpected power outage on Monday night. In the Greater Accra Region, many areas including Dansoman, Nima, Teshie reported of the outage. The 12 Municipal and District Assemblies in the Bono Region also experienced the blackout, forcing many residents to spend the night in darkness. Some parts of the Western Region including the capital, Takoradi, also experienced the outage.
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