Some residents in the Ho municipality are
expressing deep concerns over the erratic supply of electricity within the
municipality in recent times without any prior notice from the Electricity
Company of Ghana.
Over the past weeks, electricity supply within the
Ho municipality has been so unpredictable with various parts of the municipality
experiencing power outages on several occasions with the recent one occurring
during the weekend.
On Saturday evening major suburbs within the Ho
Township including Bankoe, Ahoe, the regional Coordinating Council, among
others were plunged into darkness with power been restored later at night when
residents were asleep.
The situation wasn’t different on Sunday as
residents living around Ho RTC and beyond also had their fair share of the
outage in the afternoon with Ho polytechnic and its environs including the
SSNIT flats experiencing the outage in the evening at about 6:40pm, which
lasted for barely an hour and half.
This erratic situation, according to some Students
of the polytechnic is affecting their preparations towards their mid and End of
Semester Exams, as some residents also lamented that their electrical gadgets
are being destroyed by the frequent outages. They are therefore calling on the
Electricity Company to come out and explain the erratic situation which is
seriously affecting both lives and economic activities in the municipality.
After several attempts to get response from ECG
officials, a customer service Rep has disclosed that the outages are part of a
load shedding program being undertaken by the ECG. He however, fell short of
details of how the program is being carried out within the municipality, as
most residents are unaware of any load shedding program.
Meanwhile, Mr. Robert Amewuda Ho municipal ECG manager
on Monday morning confirmed the load shedding in a telephone interview.
According to him, the company was forced to embark
on an emergency load shedding in the Ho municipality in order to supply some
electricity to Aflao and its environs which has loss electricity supply due to
the complete burnt down of a GRIDCo sub-station there, caused by a thunder
lightening on April 25.
He however gave the assurance that, electricity
supply within the Ho municipality will be fully restored when GRIDCo completes
the installation of a spare transformer being transferred from Takoradi to
Aflao.
This situation comes on the heels of ECG Volta
being adjudged the best performing region in the country for 2011.
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