The Minority in Parliament has criticised the government over the country’s ongoing power challenges, accusing authorities of concealing the severity of the situation by portraying it as routine maintenance work instead of a deepening electricity crisis.

Speaking on behalf of the Minority, Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Energy Committee, Collins Adomako-Mensah argued that the recurring outages being experienced across the country go beyond scheduled engineering works and transformer replacement exercises.

According to him, the government’s explanation of the disruptions amounts to an attempt to downplay the scale of the problem, insisting that the instability in power supply is the result of failures in managing the energy sector.

Mr. Adomako-Mensah maintained that the current challenges stem from the government’s inability to carry through with the Energy Sector Recovery Programme inherited from the previous administration.

His remarks come at a time of growing public concern over persistent electricity interruptions in several parts of the country.

The controversy has intensified following the April 23, 2026 fire outbreak at the Akosombo substation, which affected a key transmission facility responsible for evacuating power from the Akosombo Dam into the national grid.

The incident disrupted more than 1,000 megawatts of power supply, leading to widespread outages and renewed fears over the stability of Ghana’s electricity system.