By Lamin Njie
The freshly dismissed managing director of National Water and Electricity Company, Nawec, has said a number of World Bank officials have expressed their dissatisfaction over his sacking.
“Some of them [World Bank officials] called me with concern when the heard about this. They actually expressed their dissatisfaction with the decision but what I told them is that I am an employee and my employer has the right and the prerogative to relieve me of my responsibilities but the institution stays. I am only a person among the lot,” Baba Fatajo told West Coast Radio in an exclusive interview.
Baba Fatajo was sacked as head of Nawec by President Adama Barrow last Tuesday. President Barrow did not give any reason as to why he sacked Mr Fatajo who has been the managing director of Nawec since 2017.
World Bank recently awarded 66 million dollars in grants to Nawec under the Ecowas regional electricity access project. Mr Fatajo said the support was due to Nawec’s performance in the implementation of the GESP project.
“So all these are positives that I hope my going out of the institution will not trigger anything that will impeded the support the World Bank and other funding agencies are giving to the utility,” Fatajo added.
