Use local cables for rural electrification - Nana Oteng-Gyasi urges
The Marketing and Business Development Manager of Tropical Cable and Conductor Limited (TCCL), Nana Kwame Oteng-Gyasi, has urged the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) of the Volta River Authority (VRA) to rely on local cables for the rural electrification project across the country to support local productivity.
He said such a move would give meaning to the local content initiative of the government and promote made-in-Ghana products as part of efforts to expand the local economy.
TCCL, for instance, Nana Oteng-Gyasi said, manufactured electrical copper and aluminium cables and conductors of world-class quality which entrepreneurs in the electrical parts distribution businesses could patronise to cut down on the high import of electrical cables and conductors into the country.
Most of the imported products, he argued, were of an inferior quality which increased the incidence of fires triggered by imported electrical cables and accessories of low standards.
Nana Oteng-Gyasi made the call in an interview with the Daily Graphic at the company’s stand at the just-ended 20th Ghana Trade Fair held at the Tamale Sports Stadium in the Northern Region.
He said the company, which had been a leader in the manufacturing of high quality electrical cables and conductors in the country for almost two decades, would continue to offer quality and affordable electrical products to the general public.
Market share
Nana Oteng-Gyasi said the company had also targeted to capture over 50 per cent of the market share in the three northern regions (Northern, Upper East and Upper West).
To this end, he said the company had decided to reach out to the public through seminars and educational programmes for electrical contractors and certified electricians in Tamale, to spread the message on the need for the public to use quality electrical cables for their wiring.
Market up north
As part of the strategy to capture the market in Northern Ghana, Nana Oteng-Gyasi said the company also intended to open two more depots in Bolgatanga and Wa, the regional capitals for the Upper East and West respectively, besides the Tamale depot at the Nyohini roundabout, popularly referred to as Abedi Pele roundabout.
He stated that the company had also come out with fire resistant cables which could withstand the hot weather conditions in the northern part of the country and assured consumers in the three regions of the north that TCCL would continue to offer them the quality and standard size for copper and aluminium cables for their domestic, commercial and industrial wiring.
The Tamale Distribution Manager for TCCL, Mr Kwame Appiagyei Torto, said the company would continue to engage the public through seminars and other educational programmes on the need for them to use quality and affordable electrical cables and accessories for their electrical works to safeguard their property from fires and save their investments.