NAWEC’s acting managing director Nani Juwara has warned that it will take time before his company could find an answer to the country’s power woes.
Electricity supply in the country in recent weeks has mostly been epileptic, and Nani Juwara has been acting as head of NAWEC since the sacking of Alpha Robinson earlier this month.
And Mr Juwara exclusively told GRTS regarding the country’s power mishaps: “We will do everything possible in the short term to ensure that we bring normalcy in the operations of the company. It will require time because the spare parts that we would need, need to be imported.
“Unfortunately, up to last week, some of the orders for the spare parts have not even been placed with the suppliers, much more to talk about the payments. So we are just banking on the goodwill of our suppliers, to have a common understanding knowing that we have a very precarious situation and we would bank on their understanding to speed up the processing of our orders to get these spare parts in the country as soon as possible.
“It might interest for some of you to know that last year this time, July-August, at the Kotu Power Station, we had four generators that were operating but today as we speak, we only have two generators operating at the Kotu Power Station. Two of the engines that were due for maintenance have been shut down and there are no spare parts available, even the ones that are running one of them is due for maintenance.
“At one of our power plants in Brikama which is Brikama Power Station 1, last year this time we had five generators running. As we speak, we only have two. And again of them is also due now for maintenance and probably will be shut down any time soon.”
