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>Nams Blow Their Mind Over Nawec!
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>The Independent (Banjul)
>NEWS
>January 12, 2004
>Posted to the web January 12, 2004
>
>By S.b. Camara
>Banjul
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>The state-run National Water and Electricity Company (Nawec) has not found
>any favourable words in the National Assembly, relating to its services for
>the Gambian public.
>
>Members of the National Assembly last week expressed utter dissatisfaction
>with what they described as the inefficiency of the state's energy and
>water provider, with some going as far as casting doubts over its future
>while others advocate for its activities to be closely scrutinised.
>
>Honourable Eliman Secka member for Niamina complained to colleagues that
>the state of the institution has graduated from being bad to being worse as
>is evident in the inadequacy of water and electricity supplies to homes and
>businesses. In some of the strongest words used to write off the water and
>electricity company Honourable Secka described Nawec as "a dead horse that
>should be laid to rest". He said Nawec's chronic epileptic state is
>astounding considering the volume of investment on it by the state, which
>he said is honestly geared towards improving its delivery and response to
>the growing demand for electricity and water in an expanding
>population. "Unfortunately, with its current state I honestly doubt if
>Nawec can deliver what the president has promised Gambians. It's just like
>an old horse that has been used to a point of exhaustion. All that seemed
>to be left of it is only fit to be laid to rest," he observed amidst
>laughter.
>
>"I tell you, Nawec will never be successful. In fact anytime you make
>efforts to better its services, it becomes worse! It has completely failed,
>and that is the end of it" he added.
>
>The Honourable member observed that Nawec is so overwhelmed by crisis that
>it cannot provide effective twenty-four hour uninterrupted water and
>electricity supplies. "This is serious because in a country like ours
>yearning for industrial development, energy supply should be efficient and
>reliable. But how can factories function when energy is permanently
>fluctuating and out of supply? How can we succeed in industralization. This
>is another setback to our economic activities," he enquired in a tone
>tinged with despair.
>
>He argued that despite the arrival of 18 Megawatts generators, there has
>been no improvement in the service delivery of the country's only water and
>electricity provider.
>
>Honourable Halifa Sallah, the Minority leader and member for Serrekunda
>Central, warned that problems bedeviling the nation like that experienced
>as a result of Nawec's inefficiency will be intractable unless the National
>Assembly strengthens the committees established to scrutinise public
>institutions.
>
>"We can have a special committee on Nawec, invite its Director, (in the
>absence of an SOS) scrutinise the institution, find out what its problems
>are, make inputs before determining whether the institution is viable. This
>is what we can do to start addressing the chronic problems in that
>institution," Honourable Sallah told his colleagues.
>
>Meanwhile, digressing on the arrest and detention of National Assembly
>members, Honourable Sallah said the National Assembly should develop a code
>of conduct "and once we agree on that code of conduct, we can come up with
>a legislation on immunity that no member of the National Assembly should be
>arrested unless they (the authorities) come back to this National Assembly
>and tell us that it's a breach of the established code of conduct".
>
>He said this could be followed by an immunity waiver in respect of the
>member in question as part of the process to prepare him to face the
>law. "This is within our jurisdiction as elected law makers," he said,
>before adding: "essentially though we must protect our own integrity.
>
>This means that we should abide by a code of conduct, which will ensure
>that we are worthy of being respected, we are worthy of immunity.
>
>Immunity should not be a license to escape the law, it should be a means of
>conserving our integrity and dignity so that we can serve the people".
>
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