Ashanti Regional Minister John Alexander Ackon has stated that the intermittent power supply ‘Dumsor’ has died off in the region.

According to him, residents have not experienced ‘Dumsor’ for some time now as perceived by a section of the public.

Speaking on Abusua FM’s Abusua Nkommo hosted by Kwame Adinkrah, he blamed the power outages in the country on operational problems.

‘The news today I’m sure will be the coming on stream of FPSO Kwame Nkrumah which went off stream, we cannot produce gas without FPSO, which is a production storage field,… we have gas, we are going to produce more, if Sankofa, Twenebaoh, Eyina fields adds up to what FPSO has, this week or next week, we shall be right, gas will start flowing, production will be good, am sure turnover will come, now that FPSO is coming on stream.

There is no ‘Dumsor’ in Ashanti Region, ‘Dumsor’ is a planned outage, the moment you start to get reliable supply, then the system starts to dysfunction, pressure line that is how it is, but they will go along in terms of strength, that is how the system is, and these are things they are facing, its operational problem, am sure we will address that, I think they will solve it,’ he explained.

Asked measures put in place by government to curb unemployment, he stated that construction field alone is creating thousands of employment for the youth in the region and the country as a whole.

Touching on the Kasoa interchange, he indicated that Kasoa road is a bottleneck to the flow of traffic.

‘When you do roads, accessibility is easy, because the linkages do not suffer, and up to circle will be easy to pass through, the supply chain is complete because there is a market to sell your products. There is hope in this country because the confidence in the economy is very high,’ he said.