Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Haruna Mohammed, has dismissed claims that restoring full power generation at the Akosombo Dam will immediately end Ghana’s recent outages.
He stressed that the country’s energy challenges go beyond the recent fire incident at the facility.
His remarks come after operations resumed at the plant, raising hopes that electricity supply would stabilise and ease pressure on the national grid.
Speaking in an interview on May 2, 2026, Haruna explained that the supply problems existed well before the Akosombo disruption and should not be blamed solely on the incident.
He pointed to generation data from the days leading up to the fire, noting a clear gap between electricity supply and demand.
“So if you streamline it down to the five days, even five days before the incident happened, our peak generation was 3,332 megawatts of power, but our peak demand was still 4,400. That tells you that there is a difference of over thousand… So you cannot ascribe the happening at Akosombo. Akosombo just came to compound one of the issues,” he stated.
He also criticised the governing National Democratic Congress, arguing that fixing the Akosombo problem alone will not solve the deeper, long-standing issues in the energy sector.
He maintained that the outages reflect deeper structural issues and accused the current administration of neglecting policies inherited from the previous government to sustain power sector stability.
