Although I have not read the Observer article, if I were to respond to this
email point by point, I will sound adversarial for which am not, hence I
choose not to.
Sorry that you were inconvenienced by 6 hours of electricity a day, however,
please empathize with families who've lost love ones on the operating table;
or those who never flipped a light-switch in their lives.
Yes we have a problem, although much bigger than "MINE."
Maila Touray
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Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 11:43 AM
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Subject: NAWEC ,WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM????
Did any of you see the Nawec MD's interview on the Daily Observer captioned
'NAWEC OWED D150 MILLION.According to him this amount is due to unpaid bills
by customers,fair enough,but what kind of customers are these people.If i
could remember well,i once had an arrear of D150 with Nawec and my services
were disconnected,that is both water and Electricity.It was on a Friday when
i just came from a vacation in London,i called all Nawec offices but they
were all closed and i was told by a friend who work with the company that
reconnection can only be done on Monday cause they don't work
weekends.Imagine sleeping in the dark for almost three days and also no
water supply which means i was not able to use my bathroom. My point here
is that Nawec officials know very well who and who owed them that amount,but
will they disconnect them ? If they can disconnect us the poor ones for D150
why would they spare anyone especially the so called rich people.
As long as we don't stop the favouritism,it is not gonna work for us.Let us
be ourselves and carry out our duties without fear or favour,if we think
that favouring certain people will make us stay in that post forever,we are
kidding ourselves.Well it sometimes work in the Gambia,but how long do you
have to live your life like that?
I had lots of interviews with Nawec officials and i did them
documentaries,but each time they were like,power problems will be sorted out
soon.When is soon? I was in Gambia in September when there was a 10 weeks
load shedding,it was like 18hrs off and six hours on,can you imagine 18
whole hours off electricity.I was lucky that i only stayed for 14 nights.I
love Gambia like all other Gambians do,but there are some things that are
just disgusting,we see them happening everyday,but are we doing much about
them? Let us remember that Electricity supply plays a very important role in
development,so if we still want to attain vision 20/20 the blue prints of
the Gambia we have to work on Nawec.
No hard feelings,
Fatou Harona Drammeh.
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