Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Gambia, Electricity, and Blackout

Gambia, Electricity and Blackout

Gambia thinks it only need to produce about 36.5 MW for the whole country to be electrified. That should not be a problem, considering the size of the country. But here we are after more than forty years of independence; Gambia is going through electricity blackouts.
The question is WHY?
Dauda Jawara will say he was not given the chance to improve on what he inherited from Britain, but he was in power for almost 30 years (an African hippo), until a bunch of revolutionary misguided cadre of soldiers overthrew him. What has happened since? Nobody knows.
Now we have a new president in Yayah Jammeh (been in power since 1994), he is going through the electricity blackouts, he has proven himself a hippo, the money that should be going into electrification of the country of Gambia, but has NOT is weighing him down, another hippo of a head of state. He has admitted that the electricity problem has caused the textile industry not to expand. So the job that was promised the masses or shall I say the guppies, have not materialized.
Folks, if you do not feed your guppies, they will not grow bigger to feed the herring, which will not grow bigger to feed the sharks.
Mr. Jammeh was dancing with the guppies last June to celebrate the inauguration of a new 6.5 MW generator. Do I see a cheetah in the making?
Only time will tell.Mr. Yayah Jammeh, please stop being a hippo, and become a cheetah.

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