The Minister for Energy for the Republic of Ghana, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, on Friday, introduced his three Deputy Ministers to the management of the ministry.
They are Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, MP for Karaga Constituency, William Owuraku Aidoo, MP for South Afigya Kwabre, and Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, MP for Sekondi Constituency.
Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam and William Owuraku Aidoo previously served as deputy ministers for Energy in charge of Petroleum and Power respectively.
Some industry watchers were of the view that the duo would be made to serve in their previous portfolios but credible information available to energynewsafrica.com pointed to the contrary.
Dr. Mohammed Amin, who is a petroleum economist with many years of experience, has been assigned as the Deputy Minister in charge of Power while William Owuraku Aidoo has been put in charge of Infrastructure and Finance, with
Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, a lawyer, put in charge of Petroleum sector.
In a Facebook post sighted by energynewsafrica.com, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh noted that the three would be assisting him in various capacities to run the day-to- day activities of the ministry and ensure the utmost efficiency of the sector.
During the meeting, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh said: “I took the opportunity to update them on the newly restructured organogram and urged them to be diligent in executing their duties to ensure that we collectively resolve the issues in the energy sector as well as meeting all the targets as promised in the NPP 2020 manifesto.
“I look forward to working with these brilliant men,” he concluded.
The governing New Patriotic Party NPP stated in its 2020 Manifesto: “Our priority in the energy and petroleum sector is to increase efficiency and ensure value-for-money for all activities, including reliable and affordable power generation and distribution, and further development of the oil and gas sector, as well as renewable sources.”
The party promised to pursue this goal through the following measures:
1. Enforcing competitive procurement of power, the least cost fuel procurement, and
2. minimizing excess capacity charges through the ongoing renegotiation exercise to
3. improve upon the financial health of the sector
4. reducing losses, particularly in power distribution, by ensuring ECG and NEDCo implement
5. incentive-based loss reduction targets for all District Managers
6. significantly improving revenue collection with the implementation of remote sensing technology which is currently being piloted by ECG
7. completing ongoing rural electrification projects to ensure transformation of our rural economies
8. continuing the Auction-Based Licensing strategy for exploratory Oil Blocks to ensure value for money, and
9. Enforcing Local Content policies for the Upstream and Downstream sub-sectors.
Source: www.energynewsafrica.com