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. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------