Dar es Salaam, Feb. 14 -- DODOMA: THE government has vowed to speed up its pace of distributing and connecting power to new customers across the country.

Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Dunstan Kitandula, expressed the commitment in Parliament yesterday when responding to the question posed by CCM Bahi legislator Keneth Nollo, on behalf of the Minister for Energy.

In his question, Mr Nollo questioned the government on the possibility of increasing the pace of distributing and connecting power to customers in the country.

In his response, the deputy minister said the government continues with various programmes focusing on distributing power to rural areas.

Speaking on the achievements recorded so far, he said, the g...