860 COMMUNITIES TO BENEFIT FROM RURAL ELECTRICFICATION PROJECT IN THE W/R

Weldy Lamont Rural Electrification Project

860 communities in the Western Region are to benefit from the Weldy Lamont Turnkey Rural Electrification project underway in three regions in the country.

In line with the implementation of the National Electrification Scheme (NES), the government of Ghana and the Weldy Lamont and Associates International under a United States Government Exim Bank Facility concluded a contract agreement to supply and install materials and equipments valued at US$350 million in the more than 1200 villages, towns and communities in the Western, Central and the Brong Ahafo Regions.

The project which commenced some two months ago in six rural communities in the Western Region has officially been launched at “Bosomtwi” a village in the Prestea Huni-Valley District by the Deputy Minister for Energy, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah.

The Managing Director of Technology Management which also happens to be the local project managers for Weldy Lamont and Associates, John Williams pointed out that the physical works of the project has already started in two communities in the western region and it result will start to manifest in the next four months. The project he said is expected to complete within the next three years.

Addressing the gathering at the Western Regional launch of the Rural Electrification Project, the Member of Parliament for Ellembelle who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Energy, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah noted that the Weldy Lamont and Associates Electrification project with the government of Ghana under President Mills is to connect thousand two hundred (1200) villages, towns and communities in Ghana to the national grade.

The largest beneficiary of this project he said is the Western Region since eight hundred and sixty (860) communities in the Western Region alone will benefit from this electrification project when completed.

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