Akosombo Dam shut down after fire at GRIDCo substation

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  • Tex 3 months ago

    Ghanaian Syndrom, Lack of frequent repair and timely replace of wornout parts. It’s a lesson.

  • Jack Toronto 3 months ago

    No maintenance

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 3 months ago

    Get rid of old hands in some critical areas of ECG/VRA. they are definitely enemies of the Government

  • Frema 3 months ago

    How can we know if those to take over are worse and more daft than those you perceive to be old in the system.

  • Enirehtac Nicholas Tor 3 months ago

    Hahaha, what a pathetic country

  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    Nation wreckers and saboteurs. We know them.

  • Leonidas 3 months ago

    Really! You chased away the "old" hands and brought in your "new", sympathetic and competent ones across all sectors. Are they the ones (your own) sabotaging the "reset" agenda??

  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Why do politrickcians want to play God? The dam is down and it was a clear incidence. There has been NO investigation that has established that the incidence was a result of negligence, so why fire the head of GRIDCO

  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    How can we trust a former Greater Accra Regional deputy secretary of the NPP as CEO of GRIDCO? Would the NPP have tolerated this for even a day if the shoe was on the other foot? Their comments and pronouncements about the cu ...
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  • Oprege 3 months ago

    NDCfuo and ineptitude ! How do you ask a CEO to step aside during an investigation and not afterwards into a situation ? Mahama and his buddies are just too much

  • Steve Kaye London 3 months ago

    Don't forget that a demonic party is in power so everything is gone downhill. Do you remember when Afriyie Ankrah and the rest of the NDC leaders held a sword in hand at the church of one of the false prophets and swore an o ...
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  • Gbetsimu 3 months ago

    Your brain is dead

  • Mm 3 months ago

    We should rather get rid of the incompetent Mahama

  • Gbetsimu 3 months ago

    Gbehaaa

  • ASEMPA 3 months ago

    Even your super incompetent Oluu mismanaged, wrecked and appointed Creat Loot and Share Cronnies to rape Ghana's for 8 good years and you are there saying what.

  • jimmy 3 months ago

    INTENSIONALLY

  • JESUS IS GOD 3 months ago

    Behold, today is the day of salvation”
    2 Corinthians 6:2
    Come to Jesus today; He is ready to receive you.

  • Sam 3 months ago

    BEWARE OF NPP SABOTAGERS. WHEN THEY COME THEY DESTROY AND WHEN ANOTHER IS TRYING THEIR BEST TO REVIVE, THEY DETROY IT. KNOWING NDC THEY WILL SIT THERE BEING DIPLOMATIC AND NOT TALK

  • FACT 3 months ago

    24-HOUR ECONOMY SHUTDOWN OF GHANA

  • Gbetsimu 3 months ago

    It's not true.There's maintenance team who report everything to the management.See,the executives are sleeping on their jobs.

  • Mahama 24 Hour Economy is Real & West Togoland independence 3 months ago

    Dumso is back. The same thing is what they did when last in power.

    There are more chaos on the way. Dumso is back and we must brace ourselves for it

  • Henry Nsiah 3 months ago

    Am I dreaming?
    Reset paa this

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 3 months ago

    Drop your illiteracy somewhere. Okwasia. Think.

  • Enirehtac Nicholas Tor 3 months ago

    Ghanaians are such useless pathetic people. Maybe that is why South Africans do not want them. ...Fvck Ghana

  • Akwasi 3 months ago

    No. You are rather hallucinating. Cant believe some of you are happy that a major power source of your country is down. How 3vil can the likes of be? That's the sort of a human being you are though. Just because you lost powe ...
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  • The Broader View. Believe You Me 3 months ago

    When you alert on Mother serpent dreams, npp pervasive saboteur evils, their pre-independence and Kulungugu treachery skills and npp Dumsor themes. All against the backdrop of NDC 'Mother for All' foolery, I sigh and wait f ...
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  • Ako 3 months ago

    Hmmmmmmmm

  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 3 months ago

    Mahama, Jinapor please open your eyes wide. Npp operatives are still in charged of many of the critical areas of VRA/ ECG. Get rid of them.

    Mind you Akuffo Addo and Napo did not Joke with these areas when they took charge. ...
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  • Joseph Agyeman 3 months ago

    It's wahala because NDC is in power but if NPP is in power no be wahala. Is it witch or beyie dey worry this thoughtless NPP inclined people. Thank God President John Mahama is in power it should have taken eternity for power ...
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  • BOFROT 3 months ago

    You see, let's be wise and look out for the root cause. Bringing politics into the electricity issues has bad consequences .

  • Akosat 3 months ago

    Joseph, tell us exactly what President Mahama has established for Ghanaians to accept as true, Don't rub him in the eyes of Ghanaians with propaganda of lies thinking Ghanaians take in any thrash .I support any government who ...
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  • Tony 3 months ago

    And you foolishly thinks Kotokoli Bawumia will come to power? Have you smoked weee? You must be mad

  • Akwasi 3 months ago

    This incident must be thoroughly investigated. They must bring in thd FBI

  • OKYENA NTI .ARE YOU REALLY RESERTING THE ECONOMY 3 months ago

    DID YOU HEAR THEM RIGHT GHANAIANS WE ARE OUR OWN ENEMIES MAHAMA LISTEM TO GHANAINS AND RULE THE COUNTRY WITH IRON HAND DO NOT NPP TAKE ANY RSONABLE POSITION AND TRY TO JAIL THEM IF NOT NDC IS GOING TO SMELL PEPPER IN THE YEAR ...
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  • Mensah 3 months ago

    TREASON!!!

  • kanawu 3 months ago

    Bullshit excuses.
    They are trying to save face...dumsor is back.

  • Tony 3 months ago

    @ Kanawu. Dumsor is not back. Your anus washing kotokoli Bawumia will not come to power if that is your aim. Stupid fool

  • Ras Vulture 3 months ago

    The question is what timeline will they install the Substation so that the dam shall work under its full capacity. That should be what this Energy Monster should have informed the general public.

    I agree Investigations ne ...
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  • NzemaK- Use Sec'ty Recruits to build affordable houses 3 months ago

    Prz Mahama, you are too soft. Be a man this is not how to rule an African country. Your soft handling of bad citizens who always want to reverse Ghana progress is not what will take you to heaven. Stop this concert. Mr Presid ...
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  • The orangutan state 3 months ago

    Mumu, Akosombo is a strategy asset that should be properly guarded just as jubilee house but because no government officials are stationed there it was neglected. The government must know that if ghana is at war with another ...
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  • Mr Ibu 3 months ago

    Do there's no back up transformer?

  • Efo 3 months ago

    We’ve been experiencing unstable power supply since February so stop this media propaganda and solve your incompetence Ndc

  • Kramai 3 months ago

    Maybe this was their biggest sabotage since then and not the first

  • Shithole 3 months ago

    It serves the NDC and Mahama rights....if you ignore your own and rather keep evil and witches men in men's clothing that's what happens...indeed the devil you know is better than the angel you don't know....these people has ...
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  • Freedom 3 months ago

    I urge the government to shake up the entire system especially the critical areas where NPP activists are still.lingering

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  • Lopez 3 months ago

    Azaa government, Ndc government led by John Mahama and his bunch of incompetent ministers are professional scammers, this doomsor started well before last Thursday so setting fire at the terminal station just to make it loo ...
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  • Akos 3 months ago

    NDC! Continue the father All business. You haven't seen anything yet. You have not learnt any lessons since coming into gov't. You think those of us who toil for you to ragain power will vote again? Time will tell.

  • Akos 3 months ago

    Continue the FATHER FOR ALL business!

  • jojo 3 months ago

    huuu npp nie widkid nie. the chalatance are on full operations

  • OZYMANDIAS 3 months ago

    If this is not INCOMPETENCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, I don’t know what it is.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 3 months ago

    NPP SABOTAGE BUT I SWEAR, THEY ARE NOT COMING TO POWER NOW UNTIL CATHEDRAL CORRUPTION, PDS , AMERI ETC AND ALSO KEN OFORI ATTACK REFUND ALL STOLLEN MONEY TRANSFERRED INTO OFSHORE ACCOUNTS.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 3 months ago

    THE ATTACKS ON MAHAMA SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL HE BECOMES TOUGH. HE AND ATTA MILLS ARE TOO WEAK. YOU CANNOT RULE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WITH SOFT HANDS APPROACH. IF MAHAMA CAN STAND FIRM AND DEAL DRASTICALLY WITH NPP THIEVES AND ...
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  • Hi 3 months ago

    Oil and gas prices are very high on the market, and the ndc can’t get enough money to buy to keep the lights on since the oil is used to power the plants . Hence, the fake news . Dumsor is real and has come back to stay unt ...
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  • FACT 3 months ago

    APPOINTMENTS OF MINISTERS AND CEOs MUST BE BASED ON TECHNICAL EXPERTISE NOT ON POLITICAL NOISEMAKING.

  • Albert 3 months ago

    It was all due to lack of maintenance. In Ghana we don't repair until everything is broken down. The culture of maintenance is not in us. The sad thing is that one President after the other seemed not to care. We build things ...
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  • Potash 3 months ago

    Onyaaye gbemi. We know you NPP demons and the things you always do. You will all die in opposition

  • Wgoku 3 months ago

    It is highly possible this is a POLITICAL SABOTAGE. NPP went through many phrases from fuel taxes, cocoa pricing etc., to penetrate and weakening NDC and Mahama popularity and achievement but failed. Now it seems they wanted ...
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  • Obarima 3 months ago

    Provide timetable if you are truly honest about your intentions or else the dumsor will expose you.

  • Nasrallah 3 months ago

    @Obarima Kwasiampanin boy. Go and bring your own timetable

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 3 months ago

    AFENYO MARKINS IS JUBILATING!. MAHAMA YOU TOO WEAK!. SACK ANY JUDGE IMPENDING YOUR WAY TO JAIL ALL NPP THIEVES. DO YOU KNOW WHAT NPP DID TO NKRUMAH?. TO THEM, THEY ARE THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS OF GHANA AND WILL SABOTAGE WHOEVER TA ...
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  • TRUE GHANAIAN 3 months ago

    NPP SABOTAGED?

  • FACT 3 months ago

    NPP SABOTAGE = NDC INCOMPETENCE

  • New Ghana 3 months ago

    NDC is in power playing "father-for-all" cards with the dangerous NPP members occupying sensitive positions, and they think they'll succeed?? What's wrong with NDC leadership koraa??

  • TRUE GHANAIAN 3 months ago

    NPP SABOTAGE?

  • FACT 3 months ago

    NDC INCOMPETENCE!!

  • saa 3 months ago

    Away to chop our money. ndc is full of criminals,

  • Bh 3 months ago

    They have started again

  • Yaw 3 months ago

    Lies Fall Apart, The Propaganda Cannot Hold

  • Mm 3 months ago

    Lies and Gundam. Buy fuel to power the machines and stop the lies

  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    It is high time Mahama listen to many Ghanaians who are complaining that he is too weak as a leader. People are dissatisfied with his leadership style and the lack of urgency in attending to national issues. ORAL is dead. He ...
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  • Kojo Kankam 3 months ago

    No maintenance

  • Agyengo. 3 months ago

    Masa Dumso started before this Akosombo fire. Dont take us for fools

  • Champion 3 months ago

    @Agyengo, your stamp of foolishness is an everlasting one. It is never an assumption

  • Planter 3 months ago

    DUMSO government: DUMSO on its way to Ghana.

  • Kojo Kankam 3 months ago

    Nothing short of maintenance.

  • Dramani Mahama 3 months ago

    Matemeho Amanfour,you are the most stupid in the whole of the continent Africa,you next step will land you in ur grave.

  • Gh@ North k 3 months ago

    Dear John,
    This dumsor issue is a awake call for this administration. Infact heads must rol,l it's making the government look unpopular., I humbly suggest all our energy installations should be manned by our security servic ...
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  • Leonidas 3 months ago

    Eeiii!! Is that the first time ever in the history of mother Ghana? How shall we cope with this one too??

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  • FACT 3 months ago

    THE SECOND COMING OF JD MAHAMA IS THE 24-HOUR ECONOMY SHUTDOWN OF GHANA.
    24-HOUR ECONOMY SHUTDOWN OF GHANA
    24-HOUR ECONOMY SHUTDOWN OF GHANA
    24-HOUR ECONOMY SHUTDOWN OF GHANA

  • Planter 3 months ago

    INSTAL solar power in the North for stable energy and produce barely NOTHING and put Akosombo in the South that produces GOLD, Timber, Cocoa,Diamond, Platinum but no back up power. etc...etc.!! Are we not FOOLS. Mahatma a thi ...
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  • Koti 3 months ago

    Very very laughable! When we were kids and in primary school, whenever we didn't want to go to school we his our school uniforms ourselves and feigned they were missing. Surely, people in charge of our energy sector didn't kn ...
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  • Ken Crentsil 3 months ago

    Blame Blame
    Very soon Busia would be added
    Sack all NPP people in public service and run the country
    24 hours
    EV factory and vehicles
    No power
    It is an NPP promise

  • Tom 3 months ago

    If it is saboteurs what are the Security doing.
    Rather breaking into individual homes
    Useless EOCO

  • Nayenche mark 3 months ago

    The government should try their possible best and stop the fire.

  • Osei Kwabena 3 months ago

    NDC and their blame game. RESET AKOSOMBO DAM IMMEDIATELY.
    What has the fire get to do with the GRIDCo CEO? NDC with their liars. Fix the problem now.

  • AFENYO-MONKEY & HIS GANG ARE THE BRAINS BEHIND THE SABOTAGE ACT 3 months ago

    Wo maame tw3 bayer3 ampesi. Were we not in this country when your NPP party went about distributing dead bodies across this country, and you started singing that Ghana is no longer safe under the NDC ?? Or you think Ghanaians ...
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  • Kk 3 months ago

    According to Captain Smart, anytime NDC is in power they burn Gridco

  • Anthony 3 months ago

    I am becoming more and more convinced that the black race is not capable of ruling ourselves. The mismanagements, the lack of professionalism, nepotism and ethnicity, lack of discipline and accountability, etc. etc. are just ...
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  • Adjei 3 months ago

    So who is the announced CEO of GRIDCO in the interim. When people are due for pension it is only right to reassign them to lesser hectic task like training quality control documentation etc whilst two he or she can offer supp ...
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  • Train 3 months ago

    Welcome to Mahama's favourite Hobby dum sor, dum sor!!

  • AttaNiAtta 3 months ago

    @Train kotibortor. Onyaaye gbemi 5-kilometers. Ask NAPO PREMPEH.... your closeted homosexual Vice Presidential candidate to return the Ameri plant he carried away from Aboadze to Kumasi, giving us the transportation cost as $ ...
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  • Martin 3 months ago

    This issue I will never understand
    Ever since I was born in this country I have never seen and hear that akosombo hydro burnt
    There must be independent investigation

  • Sam Fante warrior 3 months ago

    NPP is evils and enemies of Kwame Nkrumah Ghana party, anytime they go to opposition they start to put fire on government properties to destroy it just to give bad image to new government, what evils Nasty Peoples Party.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 3 months ago

    NPP AWUDIFO. NYAME AHU MO. BOTH NPP AND NDC WILL SLEEP IN DARKNESS SO WHO CARES?