Gov’t installs 14,287 streetlights in Accra ahead of election 2020

As measures to fight petty crimes like bag and mobile phone snatching in all parts of the Greater Accra Region at night, over 14,000 streetlights have been installed in the city by authorities.

The move spearheaded by the Ministry of Energy is to help illumine the city at night to prevent miscreants, who usually carry out their illegal activities in the dark and is funded by the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA).

The Ministry made this known at a meeting convened by the National Road Safety Authority last Tuesday, September 15, 2020.

The Project Director, Sylvester Ashong Ayayee in an earlier interview with Citi News, said the project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

He said his administration, valued the security and safety of the people and had therefore embarked on several projects to boost security in the city.

According to him, it came to his notice that some people usually took advantage of the darkness in some parts of the city to rob innocent people of their valuables, hence the streetlights project.

“We are working in the Central Business District of Accra and the West, North-West, the East and North East of the district of the Accra Central District. We are putting up smart streetlights that are energy efficient. We are doing this in about seven assemblies (Ga East, Ga West, Ga North, Lekma, AMA, and a few others).

“We’ve signed contracts with three contractors worth about 10 million dollars and we are working on about 14,000 streetlights luminaries and about 11,000 polls with some being dual bracketed. Our timelines are that we finish by the end of the year (2020) that’s what we are looking at and then defects liability take off from there.”

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