The Gambian President Adama Barrow has inaugurated a 30kV power transmission line from Laminkoto to Diabugu Batapa to extend electricity supply to 46 communities in the Sami and Sandu Districts.
“This important energy project has been implemented to expand electricity access to forty-six (46) communities that run from Lamin Koto to Diabugu Batapa in the districts of Sami and Sandu and within the two furthest regions of the country. These are areas that very strongly need such public projects,” the President said in his keynote address.
The US$8 million project is a medium voltage 30KV line network initiative that is fully loaded with distribution facilities.
The project includes electricity connection meters provided for one thousand Dalasi (D1,000. 00) for two thousand, five hundred and twenty (2,520) beneficiaries.
Among them will be household, institutional and commercial end-users or customers.
“It is safe to state confidently that this is a major project that has come to transform the beneficiary communities and will significantly improve the lives and livelihoods of the people who live in those communities.
“Besides providing regular electricity supply for them, the facilities will create various opportunities for the people. For example, it will enable the residents of the settlements to process and add value to their agricultural produce, facilitate access to quality social services, and enhance better living conditions,” President Barrow said.
Continuing, he said, “As my government continues to strive to provide universal access to electricity by 2025 because this project is a component of The Gambia Electricity Restoration and Modernization Project, it will undoubtedly contribute remarkably towards the achievement of our national universal electrification programme.
“While other electricity access projects are being implemented speedily to close the universal electricity access gap, we remain strongly committed to achieving the noble 2025 target of electricity access for all,” he concluded.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
