Energy Minister Determines To Fight Electricity Theft

By Aruna Momoh Kargbo
In a country where electricity theft has become rampant and the selling of stollen copper cables is the order of the day, the Minister of Energy Alhaji Kanja Sesay has expressed frustration.

The Minister expressed his frustration at a press conference on Monday 22 January at EDSA House at Siaka Stevens Street.

“The fight against electricity theft is getting more and more frustrated, strangulating the income of EDSA and prevent us from purchasing power,” he noted.

He stated that they are going to pay for power and if they cannot pay for power, they won’t be given adequate electricity.

The Minister noted that they are going to engaged in more aggressive and non-traditional methods of naming and shame electricity criminals.

He solicited the support of civil society and everybody to join them in the fight against electricity theft, pointing out that their big customers like hotels and factories who are in electricity theft.

He appealed to communities to protect EDSA properties particularly transformers because people are in the habit of destroying EDSA properties.

“People deliberately tamper with meter so that the meter cannot read. Anyway, they do it is going to affect another person,” the Minister stated.