President John Dramani Mahama as debunked assertions that the ongoing power outages shows the return of the power crisis also known as ‘Dumsor’.
According to him, it’s a calculated ploy to replace obsolete transformers in a bid to provide stable power for Ghanaians.
He said with the increasing population, it has become incumbent to undertake a mass replacement of the transformers to ensure power stability.
“ I appeal to our people. The outages we are facing are not DUMSOR . It is to enable you to get better quality and stable power” President Mahama said on Sunday.
President John Mahama who inspected transformers at the Northern Distribution Company (NEDCO) and Electricity Company Limited at the NEDCO Yard in Tamale on Sunday April 19,2026 as part of his two day tour of the region, President Mahama said the “We started to expand access to electricity from as far back as the 1980s when we started the national electrification program. At that time the population of Ghana was much smaller than it is today” he said
He said the aged old transformers are serving beyond their capacity.
“Today we are 33 million and it means that all our communities are expanding and so If we take the example of the transformer in Nungua, which was 22 years old, you can imagine that the transformer was installed 22 years ago” he stressed
He said for many years, ECG and NEDCO have not done anything a mass replacement of transformers to upgrade the power of the transformers to be able to meet the growing demand in the communities.
President Mahama who expressed joy over the manufacturing of these transformers locally however called on NEDCO and ECG to improve customer service response.
“We might just now improve customer response time. We need a system where when customers call, there is a quick response to either rectify faults or something. I was discussing that with the minister yesterday. So I am sure he will get back in touch with you to see how we can get some proper call centres, and employ young Ghanaians to sit there and respond to people when they call reporting faults and then we must have teams that are responding immediately if a fault is reported” he stressed.
President John Dramani Mahama as debunked assertions that the ongoing power outages shows the return of the power crisis also known as ‘Dumsor’.
According to him, it’s a calculated ploy to replace obsolete transformers in a bid to provide stable power for Ghanaians.
He said with the increasing population, it has become incumbent to undertake a mass replacement of the transformers to ensure power stability.
“ I appeal to our people. The outages we are facing are not DUMSOR . It is to enable you to get better quality and stable power” President Mahama said on Sunday.
President John Mahama who inspected transformers at the Northern Distribution Company (NEDCO) and Electricity Company Limited at the NEDCO Yard in Tamale on Sunday April 19,2026 as part of his two day tour of the region, President Mahama said the “We started to expand access to electricity from as far back as the 1980s when we started the national electrification program. At that time the population of Ghana was much smaller than it is today” he said
He said the aged old transformers are serving beyond their capacity.
“Today we are 33 million and it means that all our communities are expanding and so If we take the example of the transformer in Nungua, which was 22 years old, you can imagine that the transformer was installed 22 years ago” he stressed
He said for many years, ECG and NEDCO have not done anything a mass replacement of transformers to upgrade the power of the transformers to be able to meet the growing demand in the communities.
President Mahama who expressed joy over the manufacturing of these transformers locally however called on NEDCO and ECG to improve customer service response.
“We might just now improve customer response time. We need a system where when customers call, there is a quick response to either rectify faults or something. I was discussing that with the minister yesterday. So I am sure he will get back in touch with you to see how we can get some proper call centres, and employ young Ghanaians to sit there and respond to people when they call reporting faults and then we must have teams that are responding immediately if a fault is reported” he stressed.
Source : myxyzonline/Wisdon Hededzome
