Mr. Robert Porter Jackson, the US Ambassador to Ghana has said the ‘President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative’, designed to boost electrical power supply across the continent is supporting the nation’s power sector with an investment of US$497 million to ensure reliable electricity supply.
He said that inadequate and erratic energy flow is unhelpful to economic growth and said it was for this reason that every effort must be made to radically improve the energy situation.
Ambassador Jackson was addressing students and faculty members of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi.
The event was also aimed at interacting and explaining to sections of the public including the traditional authorities, US government’s policy towards Ghana in the areas of education, health, good governance, peace and security.
Mr. Jackson said they were determined to give strong backing to trade and investment promotion to create wealth and jobs for the people.
He expressed satisfaction with the increase in regional trade in agricultural products resulting from the USAID’s West Africa Trade Hub and the Feed the Future programme.
“We want to help create the environment in which businesses thrive.”