The Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security (IES), has described as misleading a claim by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that erratic power supply across the country (referred to as dumsor) has been fully resolved.

According to Nana Amoasi VII, while it is important that the president reiterated his admission that the rolling outages were dumsor, his handlers should lead and not mislead him on the status of dumsor currently.

“The first thing that we picked from the president’s statement is that today he is admitting that under his tenure, there has been dumsor. And so he made it clear in his statement that the load shedding that we are seeing is probably normal…

"To say that the issues have been dealt with is misleading and we pray that the handlers of the president will rather lead him than mislead him. Sometimes the president looks awful in the eyes of industry players, the watchers and even consumers," the IES boss told Citi News in an interviewon May 1.

President Akufo-Addo made the 'dumsor is over and will not return' claim in his address at the Workers' Day celebration on May 1.

He explained that the recent power outages have been resolved following the completion of maintenance work on transformers by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

The IES boss, however, said even at the time the president was making the claim, some areas per his checks were experiencing dumsor.

He listed among others, Weija, Ekumfi, Mankessim, Nungua, and Tema Community 2 and 25, stressing that they had experienced power outages between Tuesday and Wednesday.

What Akufo-Addo said:

“Issues surrounding the maintenance of the transformers have been resolved. Indeed, we have witnessed stable power supply across the country with no load shedding reported anywhere yesterday…

"I am confident that the unfortunate era of dumsor will not return,” Akufo-Addo assured while delivering his speech at the event.

The ECG meanwhile issued a statement explaining that outages in parts of Accra were caused by flooding at seven substations across the capital.