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As On & Off Destroy Appliances NAWEC Denies
Over a dozen NAWEC customers around the Latrikunda Sabiji, Nema Kunku and Wellingara area last Monday, 
bitterly complained of Nawec's constant 'on and off' that resulted in the destruction of most of their house 
appliances like refrigerators, television and radio sets. The group complained on Monday that for the past five 
days, NAWEC had been switching their generator set on and off from the hours of 8.00 pm to 10a.m, thus 
resulting in the destruction of their house appliances. 

According to one Lamin Ceesay, "If they would give us light, let them do it, and if they feel the other way round, 
let them do just that too. We do not suscribe to the sudden interruption of power which destroy our items." One 
Nyassi narrated how she lost her refrigerator which she used to sell ice blocks to take care of her family. "They 
will neither give me a new refrigerator nor any compensation for this." Abdoulie Njie also told this reporter that 
the electricity problem goes worse any time a new generator is installed. "When shall the system be normalised? 
We are constantly sick and tired of generators in numbers which continue to have one problem after another 
problem. Let them tell us the reality on the ground." 

When contacted, the supervisor of the Wellingara Nawec sub-station, Paul Gomez, said such complaints have never 
been reported to his station, adding he was never aware of such ons and offs as claimed. According to him, "it was 
last Monday that one of their transformers went off acidentally which was maybe due to an overloading. 'Mr. Sawaneh 
if any customer has any problem, let him report the matter to us and we will try to address the matter," Gomez told this 
reporter. 

The problem of power supply has been the complaint of many during the past years despite President Yahya Jammeh's 
promise that electricity problem would be a thing of the past by last September. However, President Jammeh also recently 
warned those Nawec staff who are bent on sabotaging his government that any time they were caught, they would be 
severely dealt with and confined to perpetual darkness. int that he really missed his friend Dumo Saho saying, "he was 
doing a good job at Bokaloho which provides skill training for youths." It could be recalled that two years ago, Dumo Saho, 
Lalo Jaiteh, President Jammeh's former ADC and others were arrested and later accused of planning to topple the ruling 
APRC government.

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