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Senegal Assembly president demands answers to electricity problem
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:06
By Kemo ChamThe president of the National Assembly of Senegal Tuesday urged government to provide acceptable answers to the Senegalese people’s demands on current electricity problems.
Mamadou Seck told the opening of a special session of the Lower House of Parliament of Senegal that the people were waiting for ''priority soothing'' answers to the untimely power cuts.
The deputies were called to the special session to discuss measures taken by the government to cope with frequent power outages and flooding as a result of heavy downpours.
While concerns have been heightening about the recurrence of last season’s flooding, which devastated many communities in the region of Dakar, already government’s inability to explain chronic electricity cuts have sparked nasty reactions from the people, with at least one death recorded so far.
Acknowledging that there might not be a ''global and definitive answers'' for the short term, the Senegalese Assembly president stressed the need for the government to provide comforting answers to the electricity crisis which he said has shaken the country.
“Senegal is a great country, and Senegalese, a great people, accustomed to hearing the truth, always ready, in dignity, to face hardships,'' he stated.
Accordingly, Energy Minister Samuel Amet Sarr, Interior Minister, Becaye Diop, and the Minister in charge of Planning, Housing, Construction and Water, Omar Sarr, will all face MPs between Wednesday and Friday to answer questions regarding these problems affecting their respective ministries.
''The current situation calls for a chain of solidarity and responsibility in which each Senegalese, whatever their condition and their idea, will play their part in the consultations, proposals and actions to be taken,'' said Mr Seck.
''It is inconceivable,” he added, “to yield to the temptation of borrowing solutions to simple emotions or partisan approaches.''
“In various forms, our compatriots have expressed their difficulties in living these situations. They have delivered messages and expressed their great expectations of satisfactory answers to their concerns," the Assembly president said.
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From the April 11 student massacre to the so-called "escape" of the alleged 2006 coup plotters,i cannot recall any of our representatives DEMANDING an explanation or calling for a thorough investigation.They were quick to rubber stamp the proposal to indemnify those murderers of our children.
And Chief Manneh? Have we ever heard the representative for his area ever demanding answers from the govt? It is time this joke that we call a government,is disbanded and sent packing.This is not the pack of liars and opportunists we want to lead us into the 21st century.
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