New transformers in Liberia
The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has officially received 26 new transformers.
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Liberia, Monrovia: The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has officially received 26 new transformers.
The company won a bid to enhance the entity’s capacity and ensure timely and unhindered reconnection of hundreds of households and businesses that have been without public electricity for a prolonged period of time, under the Presidential Transformer Replacement Project. The transformers were received at the LEC’s compound on the Bushrod Island upon its arrival in the country on 18 December.
Presidential Transformer Replacement Project was recently launched by the government of President George Manneh Weah to ensure the swift replacement of stolen or damaged transformers in various slums and other communities in Monrovia and other parts adjacent.
It was launched following the staging of series of violent and peaceful protests respectively by citizens of most areas that have been affected as a result of damaged or stolen transformers for nearly up to two years.
Speaking during the offloading of the transformers, the Senior Manager for Operations, Maintenance, Transmission and Distribution at the LEC, Thomas Gonkerwon, lauded President Weah for the initiative.
“The installation of these new transformers will help reduce power theft in the communities. We are receiving about 26 new transformers today and these transformers will help a lot”.
About 240 brand new transformers will be installed or replaced at communities that have been without electricity for quite long. According to the source, the project will hit its finalisation with the connection or reconnection of schools of communities and businesses at the end of February 2021.
Source. Front Page Africa