Afrigather By Patrick N. Mensah And Jonathan Browne
Maryland — Offended residents, together with conventional leaders of Yokudee Pedebo, Maryland county have given native authorities officers two weeks ultimatum to supply them model new transmitter.
The residents erected roadblocks and gave the ultimatum following a number of guarantees from authority of the Liberia Electrical energy Company within the county.
In accordance with them, it has been practically a yr now since Mr. Wallace Dennis, who coordinates electrical energy actions there, promised to have supplied them with a transmitter, however is but to satisfy his promise. The NEW DAWN has not independently verified this allegation.
Aggrieved residents, together with conventional leaders headed by one Eric Dickson, had earlier erected ‘conventional’ roadblocks, however later agreed on Saturday, October 8, 2022, to take away the blockade on transmission poles of the West Africa Energy Pool Mission (WAPP) after a number of appeals, saying a two-week ultimatum or else, they’d return to protesting.
The blockage lasted for 4 days, inflicting residents of adjoining cities and cities to have slept in darkness after aggrieved residents put conventional charms and talismans on transmission poles, daring “anybody calling themselves man” to climb the poles.
Yokudee and close by villages within the Pedeboe Border space, host transmission strains from Ivory Coast to Liberia passing over the Cavalla River however these areas have been with out electrical energy for greater than seven years since a 50KVA transformer was allegedly eliminated to interchange a broken one in central Harper in the course of the administration of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Inhabitants proceed to obtain guarantees, together with one from incumbent Senator James Biney, throughout his marketing campaign for the senate in 2020 that’s but to be fulfilled, in accordance with studies.
Pedeboe city in Maryland situates on the border with neighboring Ivory Coast. However like a number of different villages and communities within the county, it’s with out energy. In the meantime, this paper has gathered that a number of components proceed to hinder clean implementation and free circulation of electrical energy from the West Africa Energy Pole, together with poorly planted poles, lack of meters for purchasers, and absence of a substation on the Liberian aspect of the border.
