After the heavy rains and flooding that hit several parts of Ghana on Monday, June 29, 2026, residents in parts of Kasoa South in the Central Region remain without electricity for five days and counting.
The outage, which occurred at about 10:00 a.m. on Monday during the heavy downpour, affected communities around the Mother and Child enclave and Aquilla Bakery, including areas around Poultry Junction, Jerusalem Gate and the Saudi Mosque, and has yet to be restored as of Friday, July 3, 2026.
Checks showed that while electricity had been restored in parts of the main stretch, such as Mother and Child and Aquilla Bakery, inner communities within the enclave remained without power. Attempts by residents to get clarity from the (ECG) have so far produced limited answers.
On Wednesday, ECG officials informed a resident in the community that an engineer would be sent to assess the situation after concerns were raised over the prolonged outage. Contact details were subsequently forwarded to the assigned engineer, who confirmed he would visit the area. Follow-up calls later went unanswered.
Further contact with ECG on Thursday confirmed that the outage was linked to a faulty transformer.
Officials said the local office was awaiting further communication and direction from Cape Coast before repair works could proceed.
When asked how long the process would take, ECG officials said no timeline could be given until directives were received from Cape Coast.
On the evening of Thursday July 1, 2026, ECG representatives moved through parts of the affected community with a megaphone, informing residents that the company was aware of the outage and working to resolve it. The announcement, however, did not indicate when electricity supply would be restored.
Residents of these communities now have to rely on nearby charging points to power mobile devices, with some commercial operators charging fees for charging services due to the prolonged outage whereas small businesses, including food vendors and cold store operators, also report losses due to spoilage and disruption to daily operations, as they remain unable to rely on electricity since the flooding.
The prolonged outage follows widespread flooding in parts of the Central Region and the Volta Region, raising concerns over the impact of heavy rains on local power infrastructure.
As of press time, power had not been restored to the affected areas, leaving residents questioning when normalcy would return and whether their community risks becoming another long-neglected blackout zone.
By Eric Mawuena Egbeta
