By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
President of the Republic of Ghana, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, has hinted that his sixteen-day-old government has successfully averted the looming threat of power outages, known in Ghanaian parlance as “dumsor”.
President Mahama, speaking during the swearing-in ceremony for six approved ministers, emphasised that decisive action had been taken to stabilise the energy sector and ensure uninterrupted power supply despite challenges inherited from the previous administration.
“As you may all be aware, the previous government did not work to ensure a smooth running of the energy sector by neglecting to arrange enough fuel to power our thermal plant. This was because of the known scheduled maintenance work that was expected to be placed on the West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAPCo) which is responsible for bringing in significant gas that we have in our eastern enclave.
Through determined efforts, I can report that we have now averted the looming threats of power outages and began delivering fuel to the thermal plant in the east in advance of the shutdown of the WAPCo gas pipeline,” he stated.
The six minister nominees who were recently approved by parliament were sworn into office by President Mahama.
The six are: Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson; Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine; and John Jinapor, Minister for Energy and Green Transition.
Others include Minister for Education, Mr Haruna Iddrisu; Minister for Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku; and Governs Kwame Agbodza, Minister for Roads and Highways.
