A Papa Faal government will establish a taskforce comprising government and the private sector support by local and international experts to design and implement realistic and cost-effective solution to the country’s electricity problem.
Former President Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara’s grandson over the weekend announced his candidature for president.
On the country’s electricity problem, Mr Faal is planning to permanently resolve the issue by expanding generating capacity through liberalisation.
In doing this, his government will ‘establish establish a taskforce comprising government and the private sector support by eminent local and international experts to design and implement realistic and cost-effective solution to the country’s electricity problem’.
The Papa Faal administration will also ‘rename NAWEC to Gambia Public Utility (GPU) and break it down into three sectors’. The three sectors will be be; energy generation, energy transmission and distribution and municipal water supply.
