The Minority in Parliament has warned the government to desist from using language to mislead citizens.
Speaking to the media on the persistent challenges in the energy sector, the Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Energy Committee, Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah, led calls for immediate transparency from the administration regarding the deteriorating power situation.
He asserted that the current power crisis stems from the government’s failure to implement the recovery plan it inherited upon taking office.
He emphasised that citizens deserve to know the truth about the financial health of the energy sector and the real causes of the ongoing blackouts.
The Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre North also accused the administration of using misleading terminology to describe the nationwide outages.
According to him, the government has framed the crisis as routine transformer upgrades in an attempt to avoid admitting operational failures.
The Minority insisted that the Energy Sector Recovery Programme must be fully and faithfully implemented, with a public timeline verified by independent parties. They noted that every week of delay deepens the financial deterioration contributing to the current instability in the national grid.
Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah also highlighted the heavy financial burden on Independent Power Producers due to chronic payment defaults.
He called on the government to publish the total outstanding obligations and provide a binding payment schedule.
The Minority further expressed concern about the physical condition of the national transmission and distribution network. They called for a nationwide infrastructure safety audit to assess the maintenance status of all critical components within Ghana’s power system.
Additionally, the group demanded that the Minister for Energy appear before the full House of Parliament to brief members on generation capacity. They stressed that parliamentary oversight remains a constitutional obligation that the executive must respect.
The address also touched on the recent suspensions of officials at GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Ashanti Region.
The Minority insisted that any investigations into these matters must follow transparent due process and be based strictly on evidence. They insisted that the current party should stop using descriptive words to qualify the current energy situations.
Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah, MP for Afigya Kwabre North“The government must immediately cease describing a nationwide power crisis as a planned maintenance program or a series of routine transformer upgrades. Ghanaians are not fooled. The lights are out because this government has failed to implement the recovery plan it inherited, not because of engineering schedules.”
He argued that the government is sacrificing public servants for political optics while ministers evade accountability for policy failures. The speech described recent administrative reshuffles as a calculated attempt to mask the absence of a coherent energy policy.
Financial Neglect And Abandoned Recovery Plans Fuel National Blackouts
The Minority caucus detailed how the abandonment of the Energy Sector Recovery Programme has led directly to the current crisis. They pointed out that revenue shortfalls remain unresolved while the sector continues to deteriorate under the current administration.
Hon. Habib, First Deputy Minority Whip, is expected to file a Right to Information (RTI) request regarding the energy sector levy. The move aims to uncover the total amount collected and how those funds have been utilized during the ongoing power crisis.
The parliamentarians argued that the outages are the result of sustained financial neglect. They described the government’s approach as a public relations exercise that seeks to explain away a national emergency rather than confront it.
Hon. Adomako-Mensah further noted that power outages were already widespread across the country prior to specific incidents at the Akosombo Dam. He attributed the systemic failures to persistent mismanagement since the government assumed office in January 2025.
The Minority vowed to pursue full parliamentary scrutiny of the crisis through all constitutional means available. They pledged to remain the voice of the people until the government takes responsibility for what they described as a preventable situation.
“If funds have been misappropriated, those responsible must be held accountable. We will not let this matter rest. Hon. Habib, First Deputy Minority Whip, will be filing an RTI request on the energy sector levy and how much has been realized and how it has been used.”
Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah, MP for Afigya Kwabre North
The Minority called for a firm rejection of the explanations offered by the Ministry of Energy. The Minority maintained that the government is managing the crisis through optics.
The Minority reiterated that the public owns the energy infrastructure and has a right to know the operational status of key facilities.
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