Akwatia residents demonstrate against four months power cut

Residents of GCD walker electoral area and Amanfrom camp all in the Denkyembuor district of the eastern region are protesting against cut of power supplement from the national grid over four months now.

The protesting residents say the power cut is affecting both commercial and domestic activities.

The two communities which are within the operational area of Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited in Akwatia were automatically disconnected after VRA disconnected the mining firm from the national grid for non-payment of bills.

The Ghana Diamond Company in 2011 was renamed Great Consolidated Diamond Ghana (GCDG) has become dormant after Jospong Group bought it for $17.5million.

Carrying placards, scores of residents picketed at the Great Consolidated Diamonds Limited where a press conference was held demanding government ends the "unfair" treatment to residents there.

Assembly man for the area John Osborn Quansah claims among other things the rise in teenage pregnancy , theft cases,lack of water supply.

"Today is exactly 122 days that darkness engulfed us," an Assemblyman, John Osborn Quansah said.

He blamed the protracted power crisis on the failure of government officials to prioritise the peoples' interest.

He cautioned the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to keep a close eye on his executive because "some of his appointees want to disappoint him".