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Momodou
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 Posted - 15 Aug 2013 : 09:16:36
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BATOKUNKU WIND POWER MANAGER, ALKALO AND ANOTHER ARRESTED
By Alhagie F.S. Sora
Foroyaa: Published on Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Foroyaa has been informed that Mr. Peter Weissferdt, the initiator and coordinator of the Batokunku Village Wind Power project, Alhagie Fafa Jatta, the Village Alkalo (head), and Mr. Alhagie Borry Ceesay, a Village resident, were all arrested on Sunday,11 August 2013 by the plain clothes officers around midnight and said to be held at the National Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Banjul.
Visiting the Batokunku Village yesterday, Tuesday,13 August, sources close to the trio confirmed their arrest and detention. The source attributes the arrest to the issue of electricity supply to the whole village.
Foroyaa will further investigate the cause of the arrest and inform the readers accordingly.
Source: Foroyaa
Related Topic: BATOKUNKU RESIDENTS COMPLAIN OF EXCLUSION WIND POWER PROJECT COORDINATOR EXPLAINS
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toubab1020
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Posted - 15 Aug 2013 : 15:47:24
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I know ,it's all about MONEY again,reading the related topic above,an Economic crime perhaps ?
Mr. Weissferdt maybe a businessman and identified an opportunity and has failed to completely understand Gambian laws,and consequently fallen foul of Gambian Laws when he started running his business.
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"Mr. Weissferdt said the village is an independent distributor of current similar to that of NAWEC and emphasising that NAWEC has no right over the territory of Batokunku, because the wind power project is registered as the second electricity company in the Gambia and based in Batokunku village in the Kombo North district. He said he has this agreement with the authorities that Batokunku is a no go area for NAWEC and this is why the electricity high tension cable passes the village to other settlements in the area. He said since they have now electrified 60% of the village, the remaining 40% will be covered when there is funding. He said since there is no funding at the moment, anyone who wants to be connected has to fund it.
He explained that the Batokunku Wind Power Project is a community based institution and a non-profit project and has a licence contract from PURA to produce electric energy with the wind turbine and supply it to the people in Batokunku. He said this is why they have their own tariff which has nothing to do with NAWEC, adding that the Batokunku tariff is far below that of NAWEC. He said the funding for the project came from him and his friends in Germany and that the first phase was intended for 35 compounds and now it has covered 85 compounds. He added that those compounds that have not yet been electrified have got the sockets and switches installed and that all is done by him and his friends, adding that the project is hundred percent free for the villagers.
"The fixture and fittings including the bulbs are all supplied free because the project is 100% free and over 7 hundred energy saving bulbs are fixed in the connected compounds", he said.
Mr. Weissferdt said the villagers dug the trenches and the foundation for the wind mill, laid the electric cables and the water pipes in the ground. He said the project is one of its kind in the Gambia, as one can go around the whole village without seeing any overhead electric cables because all of them are under ground.
According to him, an electric pump was installed at the borehole to supply water to the whole village. He said the water pump is sponsored by the village from the money collected from the consumption of electricity.
He said they understand that 95 % of the rural people are extremely poor and that is why they have made their tariff D2 per KWH compared to NAWEC's D9.1 per KWH."
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