ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's President John
Mahama created a ministry of power on Saturday
in a fresh bid to resolve a long-standing
electricity crisis that has slowed economic growth
and frustrated citizens with frequent power cuts.
Kwabena Donkor, the chairman of parliament's
energy committee, will head the new ministry,
according to a statement from the presidency.
Donkor, a former deputy energy minister, was not
immediately available for comment.
Power production was previously overseen by the
energy ministry, which was also responsible for
managing Ghana's upstream oil and gas sector.
The West African state generates much of its
power from three hydro-electric dams that do not
produce enough energy to satisfy an economy
projected to grow at 6.9 percent this year.
It also imports natural gas from Nigeria via the
West African Pipeline Company and will soon
have offshore gas from the Jubilee field once a
delayed pipeline and processing plant at Atuabo
comes online.
On Friday, Mahama sacked the head of the state
Electricity Company of Ghana, which is seen by
experts as the least efficient of a chain of state
power companies.


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