A rainstorm has caused interruption in electricity power supply to some areas within the Yilo and Lower Manya Krobo areas of the Eastern Region.
The major destruction had to do with a roof that got ripped off and fell on parts of the ECG’s overhead line conductors and damaging a pole in the process at Kpong Junction thereby affecting one of the two main network lines that supply power to these two municipal areas.
This has resulted in cut of power supply to customers in Kpong Quarters, Makrosec, Nuaso (New and Old Town), Kpongunor, Abanse, Agormenya Market and Township had their power supply curtailed.
ECG said it is making efforts to restore power after some customers were migrated onto the other supply line which had not been affected, while work was ongoing to restore the broken pole and conductors.
But the extent of damage and its attendant repair works, some customers have remained off supply since the incident as they could not be migrated onto the unaffected supply line.
The ECG Tema Region and Krobo District have been working assiduously to fix the problem and to restore supply to all customers.
It is hoped that all repair works will be completed soonest.
The Company apologised for the inconvenience that this outage has caused, and also caution the public to be careful as we enter the rainy season which could have some storms as well.
“Roofs of buildings should be checked to ensure their integrity is intact in order to avoid such incidents and outages resulting from such incidents, as happened in Kpong on Saturday,” according to ECG.
By Vincent Kubi