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President Julius Maada Bio has promised to give priority to the energy sector in 2025.
During his New Year’s Eve speech, the President said his government plans to upgrade the energy sector in the West African country.
“Meeting our country’s growing energy demand will be a top priority in 2025,” Bio said.
He added that he will continue to work on various initiatives to improve the energy mix to power homes and industries.
“To accelerate our country’s development, we will actively seek financing and technical partnerships for renewable clean energy investments,” he said.
Bio added that the $480 million MCC is a milestone for the country as they hope to utilise the money to improve energy access and reliability supply to households and businesses.
Sierra Leone’s energy crisis is one of the oldest in the sub-region but a 10-year civil war compounded by corruption reduced the sector to a low ebb. A decade after the country’s civil war, successive governments have taken gradual steps to mitigate the crisis.
Currently, most rural areas in the country remain dark with cities still suffering from intermittent power cuts. Recently, the Sierra Leone government was awarded a $480 million grant from the US’ MCC to support the energy sector.
The local population hopes that the proper utilisation of this grant will enhance clean, reliable and affordable electricity in the coming years.
If this government succeeds in just energy supply. It will be a BIG step forward.
“If this government succeeds in just energy supply. It will be a BIG step forward.”
If this governent succeeds in just energy supply, they would have done an incredible job and done an immense amount for our country, but they won’t. I don’t know how the US that acted like they were going to help us with our stolen election situation, then just caved in to Bio, plans to dole out the money, but a huge percent of any cash that gets handed out to the government, will be going into the pockets of these thieves. As soon as they heard about an almost half a billion dollar grant, they started doing financial planning for retirement, seeing MILLIONS in their bank account.
Bio has been talking about fixing the energy problem since when he was running in 2016/2017, using the situation as a platform and to knock Koroma, who also failed, but 6 years in power and he hasn’t done anything but waste millions paid to Kapower for very expensive “temporary” power that hasn’t fixed anything and isn’t reliable because we can’t afford it. He was all tok, no do.
How backwards do you have to be as a country to not be able to provide reliable electricity and only a couple cities even have power?
Lae den lef we ya.