Residents of Great Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) community at Akwatia in the Denkyembuor District of the Eastern Region are set to have electricity supply after six months of life without power.
The Director of Communication of NPP in the Eastern Region, David Prah, says he is following up on the issue with all stakeholders to ensure the problem receives a solution as soon as possible.
Last week, the Adom Dwaso Nsem team on their Fabewoso segment of the morning show, brought to light, the plight of the community.
The community was deriving their electricity from the GCD, a mining company situated at Akwatia but the company is currently on its knees, resulting in the cutting of power supply to the area.
The residents in sharing their experiences with the team, asked for government’s intervention.
Some women of the community told the team their husbands no longer spend their nights with them because of heat and darkness in the area.
The situation, according to the residents, is so bad that some young girls have contracted candidiasis as a result of heat emanating from their toilets because of the absence of electricity to pump water to their homes.
“I have three daughters; I realized one of them was having irritations in her private part, along with passage of fluids. I realised she had contracted ‘white’ [candidiasis] so I had to throw away all their panties”, one woman told the team.
The situation has also affected the contact hours of pupils because of irregular water supply.
School authorities also say the situation has affected the teaching of ICT which has been reduced to only theory because there is no power to teach practicals.
“The sad thing is that the school in the community which was divided into ‘A’ and ‘B’ has seen one collapsing leaving only the ‘A’ session which is presenting only 15 pupils for this year’s BECE because we can’t even teach ICT well”, a teacher lamented.
In response to the predicament on Dwaso Nsem, Mr. Prah, who is also the Director of Communications at the National Service Secretariat says he will cooperate with the DCE, MP, Regional Chairman of the NPP and other stakeholders to ensure the problem receives a resolution.
Meanwhile, the Regional Marketing Officer of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Damtse Abraham Lincoln said the cost incurred by GCD led to the cut of power supply by GRIDCO.
He has, therefore, suggested to government to put the community under the Rural Electrification Project to relief the residents of the problem.