The minority in Parliament has dismissed the recent leadership shake-up at GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as a mere “political management of embarrassment”, arguing that the moves offer no real solution to the nation’s ongoing power crisis.
Speaking to the press on Monday, April 28, 2026, the MP for Afigya Kwabre North and Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Energy Committee, Hon. Collins Adomako-Mensah, suggested that while instructing the CEO to step aside and reshuffling the ECG’s Ashanti Regional leadership might grab headlines, such actions would fail to produce actual electricity.
“What Ghana is witnessing is not accountability. It is the political management of embarrassment by an administration caught off guard by the consequences of its own inactions,” he stated.
Hon. Adomako-Mensah highlighted that Engineer Mark Owusu was appointed as the acting CEO of GRIDCo as recently as 2025 by the current government.
He contended that the dire financial conditions GRIDCo has endured since January 2025—characterised by severe underfunding, unpaid debts to Independent Power Producers (IPPs), and neglected maintenance—were not the CEO’s fault.
“The financial environment within which GRIDCo has been forced to operate since January 2025—one of chronic underfunding, uncleared IPP obligations, deferred maintenance, and a sector haemorrhaging cash under NDC stewardship—is not of his making. It is the making of his political principals,” the MP argued.
He further noted: “To hold him publicly accountable while shielding the policy architects of this disaster is not justice. It is deflection dressed up as decisive leadership.”
Regarding the fire at Akosombo on 23 April, the Deputy Ranking Member emphasised that the government bears the primary duty to safeguard the nation’s energy backbone. However, he maintained that “lack of maintenance and safety protocols must be blamed on the government.”
“We do not oppose investigation, but any inquiry into events at critical national infrastructure must be thorough and transparent. If negligence, dereliction of duty, or any other culpable conduct is found, those responsible must face the full force of the law,” he said.
He stressed that suspending officials should not be used as a public relations tactic to avoid addressing the fundamental policy failures that have crippled Ghana’s energy sector.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
