Half Assini (W/R), Sept. 23, GNA - Twenty-three communities in the Jomoro District of the Western Region have within the past three months bee= n hooked to the national electricity grid.

This brings to 67, the number of communities in the district that have been connected to the national electricity grid by successive governments between 1998 and 2011.

The Jomoro District Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (EGC), Mr Moses Osei, said this in an interview with the GNA. Electricity first reached the Jomoro District in 1998 under a PNDC government policy that every district capital be connected to the national grid. He mentioned some of beneficiary communities as Ohiamadwen, Nyamenle Kwame, Ozanyamenle Ye, Anwiafotu, Anwiafotu Junction and Fante New Town. The rest are Kwabre, Enzimetianu, Ellenda Wharf, New Town, Balebangla, Mepeasem, Boakwa, Anlomatuape, Metika and Old Kabenlasuazo. He said the China Water and Electricity Company which executed the project has installed transformers at all the communities while ECG has completed the meter registration. He said 30 more villages and cottages would be connected next year by the government under Turnky Rural Electrification project.