Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - The load shedding programme would not affect critical State operations as major Ministries, Departments and Agencies scheduled to go off on Friday morning between 0600 hours and 1800 hours would be saved.

Mr Albert Thomas Baffour, the Operations Engineer of the Electricity Company of Ghana, who was speaking to the GNA on Thursday, said, however, that some MDAs belonging to the group "D" expected to go off between those hours, would be affected. He, however, declined to mention the names of the Ministries.

When pressed further Mr Baffour said the seat of Government at the Castle; security establishments; hospitals and specifically the Ghana News Agency would not be affected in the morning load-shedding exercise. This is because the GNA, the largest news gathering organisation with 65 media houses depending on its files, is the nation's information dissemination nerve centre. 31 Aug. 06