Chei Sallangari ! LU WAI MUNUL, NEHUL Matarr >From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: FWD:Nams Blow Their Mind Over Nawec! >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:02:25 -0500 > >---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list > <[log in to unmask]> >Poster: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: FWD:Nams Blow Their Mind Over Nawec! >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Nams Blow Their Mind Over Nawec! > >The Independent (Banjul) >NEWS >January 12, 2004 >Posted to the web January 12, 2004 > >By S.b. Camara >Banjul > >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". > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------= > >Copyright =A9 2003 The Independent. All rights reserved. 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