By:William Narh

President John Dramani Mahama has assured Ghanaians that his government has successfully averted the looming threat of power outages, commonly referred to as “dumsor.”

Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony for newly approved ministers, President Mahama emphasised that decisive action had been taken to stabilise the energy sector and ensure uninterrupted power supply despite challenges inherited from the previous administration.

“As you may all be aware, the previous government did not work to ensure a smooth running of the energy sector by neglecting to arrange enough fuel to power our thermal plant. This was because of the known scheduled maintenance work that was expected to be placed on the West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAPCo) which is responsible for bringing in significant gas that we have in our eastern enclave.

“Through determined efforts, I can report that we have now averted the looming threats of power outages and began delivering fuel to the thermal plant in the east in advance of the shutdown of the WAPCo gas pipeline,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the president swore in minister nominees who were recently approved by parliament. They are; Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, Finance, Dr. Dominic Ayine, Attorney General and John Jinapor, Minister for Energy and Green Transition

The others include Haruna Iddrisu, Minister for Education, Eric Opoku, Minister for Food and Agriculture and Governs Kwame Agbodza, Minister for Roads and Highways