Up to 70% of the country was thrown into an almost nationwide blackout or “Dumsor†Wednesday night.
Though power was restored to many parts of the country after about an hour, sections of Ghanaians took to social media to complain that power to their homes were cut again before 6am today [Thursday].
Speaking in an interview on Joy News Thursday morning, CEO of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), William Amuna said the cause of the outage was yet to be determined.
According to him, though GRIDCo's engineers spent night working on the issue, their focus had been to restore power to the whole nation and not the cause of the outage which he said could have been caused by fault on one of the transmission lines or possibly a lightning strike on the transmission lines.
“We are currently concentrating on restoration, we will come out with the actual reasons for the outages later in the day but for now restoration is ongoing. Hopefully in the next three hours, (9am) we should be done with the whole countryâ€, he assured.
The last time a blackout of this magnitude hit Ghana was in January 2016. It was attributed to a systems failure by authorities.
Ghana is yet to fully emerge from a 5-year-old power crisis. The erratic nature of power supply, locally referred to as Dumsor (Power on and off) has taken a toll on many business, collapsing a number of small scale enterprises. Such is the popularity of the word Dumsor that it is now found on Wikipedia.
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