Several communities in the Tarkwa township, including Nzemaline, Prisons, and Cyanide, are currently without electricity due to a malfunctioning transformer at the Cyanide junction.
This blackout has persisted for the past four days.
According to the Tarkwa District Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ing. Odame Thompson, “someone made an attempt to extract oil from the transformer and in the process damaged the fins of the transformer, making the oil leak. It is the oil that cools the transformer’s temperature.”
This, he said, has damaged the 500 KVA transformer.
He noted that his team would go to Takoradi and Tema in search of a transformer to serve the affected communities.
“If we don’t get the same size, it means that we would have to embark on load rationing for the affected communities until we are able to repair the damaged one”, he added.
Engineer Odame Thompson issued a warning to nearby communities, advising them not to transfer electrical load to any customers residing in the affected areas.
He said “If you don’t know and you call any electrician to transfer load to any affected person, I will not spare you. If I see anything like that, nobody should come to me, because I will take drastic action against such people”.