{"id":82122,"date":"2015-01-14T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=82122"},"modified":"2015-01-13T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:13:48","slug":"power-ministry-focus-revenue-mobilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=82122","title":{"rendered":"Power Ministry to focus on revenue mobilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minister for Power Dr Kwabena Donkor has disclosed his ministry will find\u00a0creative ways of mobilizing and collecting revenue to fund their projects without recourse to government and also strengthen their balance sheet for financial transactions in the open market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;6VCfou8zyDsxA7O0PIZREQUoSdUhDUrE&#8221;]The Minister who made the disclosure during the swearing in of a member of thegoverning board of Ghana grid Company&#8217;s (GRIDCO), also said ministries, departments, and other state institutions will all be put on prepaid electric meters to ensure proper accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe will aggressively ensure state institutions including schools, hospitals, barracks etc pay their electricity bills as required; we know these state institutions budget for electricity so we will work closely with their mother ministries to ensure that their bills are paid,\u201d the Minister stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged \u00a0the board member, Mr Ofori-Amanfo to bring his vast experience from the financial sector to bear on activities of GRIDCO; the country\u2019s main power transmission company, as their role is critical in ensuring stability in the power sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150113_092210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82123\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150113_092210.jpg\" alt=\"20150113_092210\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150113_092210.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150113_092210-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ofori-Amanfo is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has worked as Managing Partner for Virtual Points Associates, Country Manager for Ghana and The Gambia for North American Airlines as well as Expenditure Accountant for the Ghana Airways and Unliver Ghana Limited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Power Ministry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Power Dr Kwabena Donkor has disclosed his ministry will find\u00a0creative ways of mobilizing and collecting revenue to fund their projects without recourse to government and also strengthen their balance sheet for financial transactions in the open market. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;6VCfou8zyDsxA7O0PIZREQUoSdUhDUrE&#8221;]The Minister who made the disclosure during the swearing in of a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":82121,"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":[],"tags":[38,4],"class_list":["post-82122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82122","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}