The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor, has asked the Chief Executive of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), Mark Awuah Baah, to step aside, pending investigations into the fire outbreak at the Akosombo power control center.
Minister of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, made this known on Sunday.
“Also, there has been a major shake up in the leadership of the ECG in the Ashanti Region,” the government spokesperson also said.
Energy Minister John Jinapor is expected to hold a briefing on the matter on Monday.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Minister for Energy and Green Transition has asked the CEO of GRIDCo to step aside pending investigations into fire incident at Akosombo power control center.<br><br>Also, there has been a major shake up in the leadership of the ECG in the Ashanti Region.<br><br>At 2pm tomorrow, Minister…</p>— Felix Kwakye Ofosu (@FelixKwakyeOfo1) <a href=”https://twitter.com/FelixKwakyeOfo1/status/2048451414851015033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>April 26, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
The fire incident, which affected critical control systems at the Akosombo installation, has had a devastating effect on electricity supply. Many Ghanaians have had to go without constant electricity supply for hours within a day.
According to GRIDCo, the incident which occurred at about 2:01 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, triggered emergency shutdowns and forced engineers to isolate sections of the national grid.
The fire is estimated to have knocked out about 1,000 megawatts of transmission capacity linked to the Akosombo dam.