The electricity expansion project which has seen Kiang region finally get electricity was executed at a total cost of 22.5 million US dollars (over 1.1 billion dalasis), President Adama Barrow has said.
Kiang was the country’s last remaining regions without electricity but on Saturday, President Barrow turned on the region’s light following the completion of the power project for the region.
And speaking at an inauguration ceremony held in Kiang Kwinella, the President said ‘this Electricity Expansion Project has been successfully executed at a total cost of over Twenty-two Million US Dollars (US$22.5 Million)’.
“It is indeed a key milestone in the Government’s drive towards achieving universal access to electricity in The Gambia by 2025,” the president said.
“The implementation of this first phase started in 2017, and the project covers seventy-seven (77) communities. Fourteen (14) of these are in Kiang, and sixty-three (63) are in the West Coast Region.
“Altogether, the range targets five thousand (5000) meters in Kiang and over twenty thousand (20,000) meters in the West Coast Region,” the president said.
