Public Utilities Regulatory Commission members named

Mr Kwame Pinim, an economic consultant, is to chair an eight-member Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) named by President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday.

Members of the Commission appointed in consultation with the Council of State are Mr A.E. Quayson, the representative of the Association of Ghana Industries, Mr Alex Boney, the representative of the TUC and Mr Stephen Adu, Executive Secretary of the PURC.

A statement signed by Mr Kwabena Agyepong, Press Secretary to the President and Presidential Spokesman, named the other members as Mr Kwame Osei-Poku, Mrs Mary Chinery-Hesse, Nana Kobina Nketia and Mr Mohammed Amin Aanta.