{"id":273870,"date":"2016-12-03T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273870"},"modified":"2016-12-03T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T17:00:27","slug":"dec-polls-govt-presents-solar-lamps-generator-sets-to-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273870","title":{"rendered":"Dec. Polls: Gov’t presents solar lamps, generator sets to EC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ministry of Power has presented fifteen thousand solar lamps and <\/span>275 generator sets to the Electoral Commission (EC), as back-up power source ahead of the December 7 general election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at the presentation of the items to the Electoral Commission, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Power, Solomon\u00a0<\/span>Atiim Asoalla, said although the 275 constituencies will be provided with a generator, solar lamps on stand by has become necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”ZLtOnVnNDwFnfLQYV6RuoYX8tvsvzPDS”]\u201cWe have other places where the communities have not been hooked to the national grid and we have commissioned mini-grids, that is a combination of solar and wind power In these communities, to ensure that counting is done properly. But I want to assure everybody that, we are working 24 hours to ensure everything goes on well in the power sector on election day\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Accepting the items on behalf of the Ministry,<\/span> the Deputy Commissioner of the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Electoral Commission\u00a0(EC) in charge Corporate Services,\u00a0<\/span> Georgina Opoku\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Amankwa, said they were grateful for the support and assurance from the Ministry.<\/p>\n

The sector, together with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), had earlier assured members of the public and various stakeholders in the December 7 elections, that power supply will not be interrupted during the period of the election.<\/p>\n

The Western Regional Public Relations Officer of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Philip Osei Bonsu, told citifmonline.com that, the Western Regional office of the ECG; has commenced the processes leading to the implementation of the nationwide contingency plan for Election Day; recently announced by the headquarters of the power distribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Ministry of Power has presented fifteen thousand solar lamps and 275 generator sets to the Electoral Commission (EC), as back-up power source ahead of the December 7 general election. Speaking at the presentation of the items to the Electoral Commission, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Power, Solomon\u00a0Atiim Asoalla, said although the 275 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2647,2648,11],"tags":[2633,3],"class_list":["post-273870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-top-stories","tag-dumsor","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}