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President John Mahama has apologised to the residents of Dansoman in Accra, who he said had to endure power cuts for five consecutive days.

Speaking at the 2015 National May Day parade held at the Independence Square in Accra Friday, the President said he had learnt that the continuous outage at Dansoman was due to a technical problem.

President Mahama said: "As I was preparing to come here this morning, I kept receiving numerous complaints from ordinary Ghanaians of having been without power for between 48 and 72 hours instead of the 24 hours advertised. This was particularly so, I am told, in Dansoman last week when residents went nearly five days without power due to a fault in the system.

"I wish to apologise to our brothers and sisters who live in the Dansoman area for the inconvenience they had to go through and I urge our electricity distribution companies in this time of crisis to fully deploy their customer service capacities to be able to respond to customer concerns in a timely fashion.”

The President reiterated his commitment to solving the power crisis, saying: “We are working to strategically and permanently fix the generation shortfalls that we are currently experiencing.”

He said Ghana would not manage itself out of the crisis, but would find a lasting solution to it.

“Our power supply challenges are temporary and we will soon consider them to be a bad nightmare from which we have awoken,” he said.

The ECG has stated that resident of Dansoman and Mallam in Accra are among the most affected by its the load-shedding programme.