President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Thursday, October 21, 2021, begin a three-day tour of the Greater Accra Region to bring an end of his tour of various parts of the country before the year ends.
The 2-day-tour of the region becomes the President’s first official tour after his victory in the 2020 elections. The tour will see him commission a number of projects in the region and cut sod for new ones which are expected to commence soon.
The President has earlier visited fifteen other regions where he commissioned projects, cut sod for new projects. His three-day-tour of the region makes it the last before the year 2021 ends.
Prior to the start of this tour, the president visited Central Region where he commissioned a number of factories that have been completed as part of the One District, One Factory programme.
He has also commissioned the much talked about, Pokuase Bulk Supply Point, a 330/34.5 kilo-volt substation designed to improve the supply and distribution of electricity for consumers in the northern areas of Accra.
The Bulk Supply Point is funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to the tune of US$47 million. The President told a gathering at the commissioning of the Bulk Supply Point that it is testimony to Government’s commitment to improving the electricity supply in the country.
He continued that the project whose construction commenced in February 2019, “is also the fourth Bulk Supply Point in Accra. It is the first 330kV Bulk Supply Point in the capital, and it is the most technologically advanced substation in Ghana”.
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