President Nana Akufo-Addo in nominating his Policy Adviser for the 2016 election campaign, Boakye-Agyarko, for the\u00a0Minister of Energy, asked him to ensure that the power crisis, which was christened ‘dumsor’, becomes a thing of the past.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo also indicated that, the Ministry of Power and Petroleum will now fall under the Ministry of Energy, and will be headed by Mr. Agyarko, pending parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”UMHHM6DwQRQnW6B1VBh5yGnimAx4wXBZ”]The Power Ministry was created in 2014 in a bid to resolve Ghana\u2019s power crisis, which slowed economic growth and frustrated citizens with frequent power cuts and scheduled load-shedding popularly referred to as ‘dumsor’.<\/p>\n
In a charge to Minister designate for Energy, President Akufo-Addo said the power crisis \u201chas to be a thing of the past. We must find a way to be able to have a reliable supply of energy for our industries and enterprises and affordable for our consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEssentially what he has to do is to assure the Ghanaian people that dumsor is going to be a thing permanently of the past and that its head will not rear up again especially in Akufo-Addo\u2019s time as President,\u201d the President stated.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo also expressed confidence in Mr. Agyarko’s ability to fulfill his mandate, saying, \u201che is in a position to provide the leadership of this important sector of our national economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boakye Agyarko’s nomination was part of 12 other nominees\u00a0by President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House Tuesday. The 2nd and final ministerial appointments are expected on Wednesday and Thursday respectively.<\/p>\n
Find the list of 13 Nominees below:<\/strong><\/p>\n Senior Minister – Yaw Osafo-Maafo<\/p>\n National Security Minister – Albert Kan Dapaah<\/p>\n Minister of Trade and Industry – Alan Kyeremanten<\/p>\n Minister of Finance – Ken Ofori-Atta<\/p>\n Minister of Agriculture – Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto<\/p>\n Minister of Energy – Boakye Agyarko<\/p>\n Minister of Defence – Dominic Nitiwul<\/p>\n Minister of Interior – Ambrose Dery<\/p>\n Minister of Foreign Affairs – Shirley Ayorkor Botchway<\/p>\n Attorney General \u00a0– Gloria Akuffo<\/p>\n Minister of Local Government – Hajia Alima Mahama<\/p>\n Minister of Education – Matthew Opoku Prempeh<\/p>\n Minister of Health – Kwaku\u00a0Agyemang-Manu<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Nana Akufo-Addo in nominating his Policy Adviser for the 2016 election campaign, Boakye-Agyarko, for the\u00a0Minister of Energy, asked him to ensure that the power crisis, which was christened ‘dumsor’, becomes a thing of the past. President Akufo-Addo also indicated that, the Ministry of Power and Petroleum will now fall under the Ministry of Energy, […]<\/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":[10,11],"tags":[2804,2633,3,156,2682],"class_list":["post-283521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-2804","tag-dumsor","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283521","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=283521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}