[ 2014-09-30 ]

Energy Minister commissions rural electrification projects
Domeabra (W/R), Sept. 29, GNA - Mr Emmanuel Armah
Kofi Buah, Minister of Energy and Petroleum, and
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembele, said the
Government was determined to address challenges to
ensure the smooth development of the country.

The people must, therefore, support the Government
to implement programmes that would solve these
development challenges, he said.

Mr Buah said this when he commissioned rural
electrification projects at Domeabra in the
Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality, Ayensukrom Number One
in the Prestea-Huni Valley District and Gonokrom
in the Amenfi West District.

He said the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
Government was working hard to ensure that all
rural communities were provided with electricity
by 2016.

When the National Electrification Scheme started
in 1990 only 15 per cent of the country's rural
communities had electricity but “the NDC
Government wants to achieve Universal Access to
Electricity by 2016 to enhance the role of rural
communities in national development,” Mr Buah
said.

He said about 1,900 communities were provided with
electricity last year and the target this year was
to provide 1,800 more communities with
electricity.

Mr Buah asked the beneficiary communities to use
electricity for income generating activities to
improve their living standards and contribute
towards national development.

The communities must also conserve energy by
switching off power when it was not in use.

Mr Francis Gbeddy, Director of Operations of the
Technology Management Group, local representative
of United States based Weldy Lamont Associates,
contractor of the projects, said the company was
to undertake rural electrification projects in
communities in the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Central
and Western regions.

He said the company was expected to cover all its
target communities by the end of 2015.

Mr Gbeddy said the project was being hampered by
poor road network to some of communities.

Source - GNA

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