Electricity Togo

Here we are in Togo. First, Togo was under the crushing thumb of Etienne Gnassingbe Eyadema, he has been gone for three (3) years now. Togo is still struggling with electricity supply and distribution.
Between father and son, the Eyademas have been in charge of Togo for more than 40 years, and I mean continuously. Supposedly there is going to be a new power plant coming on board by year’s end 2009, time will tell.
Papa Eyadema died leaving the people of Togo in the dark. Baby Eyadema has now been in charge for three years. After the accusation of Ghana trying to sabotage his government, political stability seem to have take root, but the electricity situation is still in the “dark”. Togo is still getting some of her electricity form Ghana.
But wait a minute, Ghana is also being helped by Ivory Coast, so this is the case of begging from your poor neighbour. What a pitiful scenario! Okay, the volta lake is still kind of high in the 240’s, but not every community is getting electricity in Ghana, Valco is still not running at full capacity.
I have deviated a little, but if Togo is able to get their new plant online by the end of 2009, that will hopefully boost the electricity supply by almost 100 Megawatts of electricity. That would be a whale of a shot-in-the-arm and this would help not only Togo, but Ghana and to some extend Benin.
Regardless of what happens two years from now, hippos have been running loose in Togo for more than 38 years, Baby Eyadema seems to have turned 180 degrees from Papa Eyadema. If time proves the current leaders to be true to their words and claim (even a partial of 100 MW by end of 2009), then we have cheetahs running in Togo.

Folks lets give them a hand for taking the right road.