These days there is so much electricity on the coastal road that you can pick a needle when it drops. Yanks promise of a 24 hour electricity is now history. Bravo APRC. See link below
Kons, Your comments are humourous but sad. Don't we see the same thing over and over. The preferred areas in city capitals often have the lions share of resources, whereas, those places out in the middle of whoop whoop (nowhere according to those who live 'somewhere') are literally in the dark due to unequal distribution of resources.
There is what is called a LORENZO CURVE in developemnt studies which looks at distribution of wealth in an economy and how the pie is shared. Unfortunately in Africa this is very wide. People are CAN PICK NEEDLES at night on a back way when radio Gambia is not on the air in CRD because transmitter blew up and also because the generators cannot be fueled. LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT.
If the back alleys have light and homes have no electricity, what is the point of the TV. Barely less than 2% of the population can watch TV.It really makes no business sense to have a commercial on TV beacuse less than 1% of the population will see it.
IS THIS DELIBERATE AND TARGETTED POLITICAL STRATEGY TO IMPRESS THE AU SUMMIT ? THIS KIND OF SELECTIVE DEVELOPMENT THAT FOCUSES ON ONLY THE AREAS THAT FOREIGN DIPLOMATS WILL VISIT AND SEE HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN THE PAST. IS THIS THE SAME KIND OF FACE-LIFT OR A GENUINE ENERGY SOLUTION IN THE GAMBIA ?
I didn't realize this was going on in Dakar, Senegal, this is in contrast to the Gambia article where the light is so bright in some areas its possible to find a needle in a haystack.
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mohandas Gandhi
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