The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has assured Ghanaians to expect power supply to normalise soon.

According to the Managing Director of ECG, Samuel Mahama, the current power outages are a result of maintenance work which the power distribution company failed to communicate to the public.

Speaking to JoyNews on March 1 he said, “I will like to take this opportunity to say, dumsor is not back and this is a maintenance issue. We suffered a maintenance set back.

“The funny thing is everybody knows about ECG but most people don’t know that it is a value chain starting from the generator through the transmitter to ECG. So for ECG what is given to us is what we distribute. So we take full responsibility for the communication gap. We are working on making sure that now we become more proactive with the communication part of things so everyone can plan ahead but it is not dumsor.”

His comments follow the recent power outages in the country and concerns raised by the Minority in Parliament on February 29 that the energy sector is collapsing.

Ranking member of Parliament's Mines and Energy Committee, John Jinapor stressed that the load-shedding was becoming more severe, even on important events as the State of the Nation Address.

He believes the power distribution company's decision to undertake load-shedding on such occasions only indicates that the power challenges is worsening.

But Mr Mahama, while rendering an apology, clarified that this narrative was wrong, as the situation was merely a result of an emergency which took longer to resolve, and the service was preoccupied with finding solutions to the problem that they forgot to update the public on the happenings.