Luanda – The secretary of state for energy, João Baptista Borges, pointed out last Monday as priority of his institution the electrification of rural and peripheral areas of the country.
 

The official said so to the press after being sworn in by the Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos.
 

He said that his sector should be essential to boost the country's rehabilitation process, as well as industrial and economic development.
 

The secretary of state said that the programme of the Angolan government, which foresees the rehabilitation and expansion of power production and supply capacity until 2012, should adjust power supply to the necessities of consumption, in accordance with what is established by the governance programme of the ruling MPLA party, which won the 2008 legislative elections.