National blackout was not a human cause - Amuna

The Chief Executive Office of GRIDCO, William Amuna has asserted that the 5am national blackout was as a result of a fault in the major transmission line but not a human cause.

Mr. Amuna confirmed this in an interview with the Citi FM morning show host Bernard Koku Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show.

“We had a disturbance in the power system relating to one of our major transmission line. So we lost supply to some part of the country.”

Mr. Amuna also said that the national blackout did not affect about 40 to 50% areas in the country which happens to the whole of the Western part of the country, adding that the last time such incident happened was in 2010.

“Accra-Tema was off and then a number of areas. We had close to 40 to 50% of the country still intact. The whole of the western part of Ghana was on anyway. There was a fault in transmission line and when it tripped, it trips some of the unit that is what caused it. The last time it happened was about 2010 so these are very real events and occasionally happenings.”

He ended by saying that GRIDCO is in the process of restoring power and confirmed that about 90% of the affected areas’ power has been restored.