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More than 60 communities in north tongu to get electricity

More than 60 communities in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are being connected to the national electricity grid under government’s rural electrification project.

Date Created : 8/27/2018 5:17:56 AM : Story Author : Ivy Setordjie

District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Richard Collins Arku disclosed this in an interview with our news team during a visit to some of the beneficiary communities to assess the extent of work being executed under the rural electrification expansion project.

Some of the beneficiary communities include Gbagbawuinu, Azagunorkope, Klamadaboe, Gbotorkope and Kesegakope.

This is the first time residents of these typical rural communities will experience power supply in their lives since the constriction of the Akosombo Dam which has affected the economic livelihoods of most of the communities along the Volta Lake.

Currently, the planting of both high and low-tension poles alongside the fixing of the appropriate cables are on-going in the various communities.

All the materials and equipment including step-down transformers have been supplied for the execution of the project. Most residents in the various beneficiary communities are also undertaking a complete wiring of their rooms with fixing of metre boards in readiness for the supply of free metres under the package.

A number of residents our news team spoke to were extremely happy that electricity would hit their homes for the first time in their lives.

District Chief Executive for the area, Richard Collins Arku told our news team that streetlights would be provided in such communities in due course in order to improve security in the district as a whole.