Various parts of Accra suffered a blackout midway the titanic clash which was viewed by many across the globe.
Football enthusiasts, who knew that this was not a new occurrence as far as the ECG is concerned, abandoned their television sets in search of alternative venues to catch a glimpse of the game.
For instance at Adabraka a suburb of Accra, football lovers thronged the premises of Citi FM, and complained bitterly about the ECG’s failure to sustain power at very crucial times.
Although they had the opportunity to view the game courtesy Citi FM via a generator, they were highly disappointed in the nation’s power distributor and wondered what reasons could be assigned for such a failure, when the ECG knew of the match ahead of time.
But the ECG as usual has explanations that sound good to the ear.
Operations Manager of ECG, Mr. Tetteh Okine told Citi News the power outage was due to a minor fault at its substation at Achimota, which was fixed later although in the middle of the game.
“We lost power at the main Achimota box supply point. May be it was the load which took it off so once we had the green light from our suppliers, we got the customers back again. But definitely it was a disappointment that right in the middle of the match the power had to go off. It’s just unfortunate but customers would have to bear with us”.
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