Energy has become an important sector of economies of modern societies as it provide life to other productive sectors, which is why there is a need to engage competent and qualified hands and minds who can help formulate good policies in the area for society.
Since Energy is the capacity to do work, it facilitates all other economic endeavors, including how the services, manufacturing and industrial sectors, and even health sector would function. Available, reliable and affordable energy would help heal an ailing economy because affordable energy facilitates economic growth.
Ghana’s energy sector is an important part of the economy because of its linkages to industry and society. Energy policy has therefore become one of the biggest issues in national politics over the past few years because of its impact on the people on very personal levels just as the issues of health and therefore the need to have the right team at the helm of affairs to help the President achieve his mandate for the people.
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A partnership between the current Minister for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, and Dr. Mohammed Amin Anta Adam as a Deputy Minister for Energy, would bode well for the energy sector, especially at this time in the second term mandate of the President Akufo-Addo led Government.
Dr. Mohammed Amin Anta Adam, who is the MP for Karaga in the Northern Region and a strong petroleum and energy economics professional; with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused on Petroleum fiscal systems, fiscal policy in petroleum led economies, institutional development among others, would be a valuable asset at the Energy Ministry.
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, a Medical Doctor who has earned for himself the admiration of many as an astute politician and a very versatile minister haven exceptionally discharged his duties as the immediate past Minister for Education, would find Dr. Amin Adam such a worthy partner as they find solution to new and emerging challenges in the Energy sector since he is not new to the Ministry. He was one of the Deputy Ministers of Energy in the immediate past administration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam was Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Energy with responsibility for the petroleum sector from 2017 to 2020.
He has worked extensively on extractive industries and resource management as a University lecturer, advisor on resource governance and a campaigner for transparency in resource management around the globe. He has advised governments and provided technical support to civil society and Parliamentary Committees on energy, mines and finance in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, South Sudan and Kenya.
Before working in the Ministry of Energy, Dr. Amin Adam was the Founder and Executive Director of the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP). He also worked as an Energy Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Energy in Ghana, Commissioner of Ghana’s Public Utility Regulatory Commission, Deputy Minister of State for the Northern Region, and Mayor of Ghana’s third city of Tamale.
Source: Clement Akoloh || parliamentnews360.com