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Minority Demands Immediate Action From Government Over 'Nationwide Power Crisis'

The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of mismanaging Ghana's energy sector and demanded six urgent measures to end what it describes as a nationwide power crisis, following a press conference on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.

Date Created : 4/29/2026 : Story Author : Dominic Shirimori/Ghanadistricts.com

The Minority called on the government to immediately cease describing the situation as a "planned maintenance programme" or "routine transformer upgrades," insisting Ghanaians are not fooled by what it termed "semantic deception." According to the Minority, the power outages are not the result of engineering schedules but rather the government's failure to implement the Energy Sector Recovery Programme (ESRP) it inherited from the previous administration.

Among the key demands, the Minority urged the full and faithful implementation of the ESRP with a public timeline verified by independent parties, warning that every week of delay deepens the financial deterioration causing operational failures.

The group also called on the government to clear outstanding obligations to Independent Power Producers immediately, publishing the full quantum of debt alongside a binding, publicly available payment schedule with credible external verification.

The Minority further demanded the commissioning and publication of a national infrastructure safety audit, arguing Ghanaians are entitled to know the maintenance and operational status of every critical node in the transmission and distribution network.

Additionally, the group insisted that the Minister for Energy appear before Parliament without delay to brief members on generation capacity, financial obligations, the status of the ESRP, and a credible, costed plan to end what Ghanaians commonly refer to as "dumsor."

Concluding their statement, the Minority charged that the current crisis is not the product of any single incident on April 23, but rather the result of a government that has allowed the sector to decay since assuming office in January 2025.

The group vowed to pursue full parliamentary scrutiny of the energy crisis through every constitutional avenue available, stating they will not allow the administration to "extinguish accountability as easily as it has extinguished the lights of Ghana