Ghana at the moment ranks as the second country on the African continent with the highest access to electricity, President John Dramani Mahama has said.
According to him, this was a testament that his government had solved the energy crisis that bedevilled the country for four years.
Mr Mahama, while speaking with residents of Chorkor in Accra, as part of his tour of the Greater Accra Region on Thursday June 23, noted that solving the power crisis, stabilising the economy and the currency, and restoring social and economic infrastructure, were his three main priority areas in his first term as president of Ghana.
“Three of the things that I have focused on in my first term have been to solve the power crisis and, thank God, we have overcome that challenge. The second has been to stabilise the economy and make the currency stable and bring down inflation and interest rates, thank God we are achieving economic stability. And the third of my priority areas and focus of my first term in office has been to restore our social and economic infrastructure and if you look at the record of this government in terms of providing social and economic infrastructure, it is unassailable.
“If you take every sector, from the road sector, we have begun one of the most massive reconstruction of our roads in the history of Ghana. If you take the power sector, today, if you take the whole of Africa, Ghana has the second highest access to electricity…, above 80 per cent access to electricity,” the president said.
Mr Mahama added: “If you take water, today the whole of West Africa, no country matches Ghana in terms of access to clean drinking water. Seventy-six per cent of our people have access to clean drinking water and if you take education, Ghana has the highest average base of schooling in West Africa, higher than Nigeria, higher than Cote d’Ivoire, higher than Senegal, higher than any other West African country.”
