Nine communities around Shama and Daboase have been without power since Tuesday, April 23, following the destruction of three pylons by a heavy rainstorm.
The affected areas include Inch Aban, Shama, Nyankrom, Komfueku, Dwomo, Daboase, Beposo, Sekyere Krobo, Anlo Beach, and surrounding communities.
The Western Regional Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has assured customers that it is diligently working to restore power supply.
Sekondi District Manager of ECG, Engineer Martin Djan, made this statement during an inspection of restoration works at Essipon.
He appealed to customers in the affected communities and assured them that power would be restored within 24 hours, as engineers were working tirelessly to resolve the issue.
“Yesterday we had a severe challenge that had to do with the breaking down of three of our out pylons on the Ketan BSP stretch up to Inchaban sub-station because of heavy downpour. We have more of our communities down at the moment without power…Currently, we are doing our maximum best to restore power, so what I have done is to contract three of my best contractors who are currently on site.
“We have planned that within 24 hours we should be able to bring back the power so that our customers can enjoy power”, he said.