Sierra Leone’s Continuous Electricity Blackout: Snails Hospitals and Daily Life’s Activities for many Netizens

By Abdul Rahman Bangura-

NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– The West Africa Nation of Sierra Leone have vents out their frustrations for the persistent blackouts that have griped the nation in recent weeks.

The electricity outages have hit cities encircling the capital – Freetown, Bo – the Second Capital, Kono and some provincial towns.

Residents of Hanga Road Jui in Freetown have touted about these ugly circumstances in the country. Abdul Rahman Durable Kargbo a second-year Community Development Studies student at the UNIMTECH in Freetown, intimated with NABN that “There are plethora of issues that’s not going well with Sierra Leone, particularly electricity…you wake up one morning and poof, there is no electricity.”

Abdul Rahman Durable is virtually uncomfortable as he leans entirely on internet connectivity to study.

Freetown’s power evolves mostly from a Turkish ship floating off the country’s coast. It has enormously decreased electricity supply to the city – from 60 megawatts to 6 megawatts – thus of unpaid bills.

Karpowership is one of the world’s biggest floating power plant operators, with several African nations relying on it for electricity.

Kargbo, noted the blackouts were affecting many aspects of his life.

“How do you iron your clothes, how does one preserve food, how do you go to sleep? When the place is so hot. We pay our electricity bills so I don’t see why we should be forced to live like this,” he noted.

Many other residents in Freetown remarked that, they were having a power outage that had taken five days in a row. The only ultimatum was bent on to make do on generators, go to neighbors’ houses for their electricity demands or just sit in the dark.

In other cities, like Bo and Kenema, residents are able to access some power, but still less than normal.

Since there’s no other means, some filmmakers stated, they had been forced to utilize their laptops, with its relatively small screen, to edit their work, rather than the use of usual desktop computers. The desktop keeps turning off or using up fuel from generators.

Barbing saloons, hotels and restaurants are same relying on generators, enormously effects their running costs negatively.

New Africa Daily News Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports, Africa Correspondent