A Request For Power Plant Made to Gaston Eloundo Essomba.
The Minister of Water and Energy Gaston Eloundo Essomba on the 28th June 2021 during a special plenary sitting on the issues of access to electricity and water in the ten regions of Cameroon at the seat of the National Assembly had difficult moments with the law makers who did not stop putting him at a tight corner because, of the continuous power failure and the water supply cut.
Over thirty elected officials took time to question the energy boss on the reason of persistent power failure in the entire country. Majority of the parliamentarians join their voices to make the government understand that, water and electricity remains main component for human lives.
They did not fail to hammer on the fact that the line of transmission and transportation used is limited. With this type of line, the power supply will always be deficient. Honorable Lawson Tabot, the people’s representative of Kumba laments on the fact that the citizens of his constituency for weeks go without light despite the insecurity situation of the South West and North West Regions.
The elected official from Meme Division in the South West Region indicated that, the transition line from Tiko to Kumba is not powerful enough to supply the economic back born of the region with enough energy to run its activities. To him, the absence of electricity in the town has skyrocketed the prices of goods in the town as many people depends now on generators for energy.
He called on the state to provide power plant to the town for the proper functioning of hospitals, businesses and the administration while they think of reinstating the Loum –Kumba transition line.
By Takang Bisong
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