{"id":25313,"date":"2011-06-21T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=25313"},"modified":"2011-06-21T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T14:03:03","slug":"as-npa-goes-erratic-president-koroma-shivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=25313","title":{"rendered":"As NPA goes erratic\u2026. President Koroma shivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Reports monitored indicate that President Koroma is unhappy over the current predicament faced by the National Power Authority (NPA) in the supply of power to residents of Freetown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It is glaring though that residents of Freetown have had restless moments complaining of cutbacks in the supply of light at homes of especially the modest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Months after President Koroma\u2019s over of governance, he was in the well of Parliament to address Parliamentary representatives on issues of national concerns.\u00a0 In the midst of desperately needed issues, the President assured all that Freetown will never be called the darkest city in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cFreetown will never again be tagged as the darkest in the world,\u201d the President said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Assumptions of city residents point towards revelation recently put out by the General Manager of NPA, Dr. Zubairu Kalakoh, that the much talked about Bumbuna hydro virtually plays no good role to issues of electricity supply at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sources say President Koroma is angry over spectacular disclosures of underperformance of the already politicized Bumbuna hydro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Recent mudslinging between management of Bumbuna hydro and NPA has undoubtedly awakened minds of ordinary Sierra Leoneans that revelations of one of Sierra Leone\u2019s musical ambassadors, Emerson Bockarie, that Bumbuna does not exist is indeed real.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Be it known that the President, time and again, has assured countrymen that in 2017 or so, Sierra Leone will boast of electricity at all fronts nationwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Wellington, Calaba town, Kissy, Allen town, and other towns within and on the outskirts of Freetown have been deprived of electricity for months without any justification from management of NPA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Some are spotted as saying the NPA is a total mess. Others also say that government\u2019s inclusion of the Bumbuna hydro has caused wasteful spending of billions by NPA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Interviews conducted indicate that the NPA, Bumbuna hydro and the ruling APC have deceived Sierra Leoneans due to woeful promises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Cecil Cole-Showers Jnr\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffReports monitored indicate that President Koroma is unhappy over the current predicament faced by the National Power Authority (NPA) in the supply of power to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[826,912,3129,680],"class_list":["post-25313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-bumbuna","tag-electricity","tag-national-power-authority","tag-npa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}