{"id":283551,"date":"2017-01-10T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283551"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:53:23","slug":"boakye-agyarko-is-minister-designate-for-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283551","title":{"rendered":"Boakye Agyarko is Minister Designate for Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Boakye Agyarko as the Minister Designate for Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyarko was a Policy Advisor for the 2016 campaign team of the New Patriotic Party(NPP).<\/p>\n<p>He is a successful banker, having worked as banker in New York for several years.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked as an investment banker for years, with enormous experience in negotiations and managerial skills.<\/p>\n<p>The major challenge Mr. Agyarko will face if approved by parliament will be his ability to prevent a power crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Describing him, as man who is very good with figures, President Akufo-Addo disclosed at the Flagstaff House that Mr. Agyarko has enormous experience in energy sector contracts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_283571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283571\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/10\/baokye-agyarko-is-minister-designate-for-energy\/agyarko-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-283571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-283571 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AGYARKO.jpeg\" alt=\"Mr. Agyarko with President Nana Akufu-Addo \" width=\"655\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Agyarko with President Nana Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to President Akufo-Addo, Mr. Agyarko \u00a0could be described as a person with deep understanding of financial transactions that will help the country\u2019s numerous power deal and agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo Addo also announced that the Ministry of Petroleum, and the Ministry of Power has been merged into one \u2013 Ministry of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyarko attended Mfantsipim School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lawrence Segbefia\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Boakye Agyarko as the Minister Designate for Energy. Mr. Agyarko was a Policy Advisor for the 2016 campaign team of the New Patriotic Party(NPP). He is a successful banker, having worked as banker in New York for several years. He has also worked as an investment banker for [&hellip;]<\/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":[32,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-oil-and-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283551","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=283551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}