Hohoe (V/R), May 22, GNA - Electricity supply was restored to the Hohoe last Wednesday after the town endured eight days without power, following damage to one of its main transformers. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Hohoe, Mr Divine Vuha, Hohoe District Manager of the Electricity Company, commended the residents for their cooperation during the outage.

"We greatly regret the inconveniences our avowed clientele have suffered during the course of the problem, we appreciate your co-operation," he said.

However, in separate interviews, traders and other business people in the town said they were still counting the cost of the one-week blackout.

Ms Akos Tsigbenyo, who operates a local restaurant, said apart from the power outage affecting her stock of meat, she also incurred a daily fuel bill of GH¢40.00 to run a generator during the period. Managers of the "Chineke God" cold store said they also lost at least 10 cartons of fish. Mr Vuha said though power was restored, a new 10MVA transformer was being monitored 24 hours for its stability and appealed to residents and businesses to continue to bear with the ECG in its efforts to improve services.