{"id":69978,"date":"2014-08-29T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=69978"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:00:58","slug":"ministry-of-energy-commissions-free-electricity-in-lakka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=69978","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Energy commissions free electricity in Lakka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wednesday 27<sup>th<\/sup> August 2014 &#8211; The Ministry of Energy officially commissioned and handed over a 315 KVA transformer and many solar light poles around the Lakka Ebola Holding Center in Freetown. In a well attended handing over ceremony, the Minister of Energy \u2013 Ambassador Henry Macauley commended the medical team at Lakka government hospital for the good job they do to Sierra Leoneans adding that it was sad for the hospital to have been running without adequate electricity. He also thanked his operations team in the Ministry and NPA for the rapid response in facilitating and bringing electricity supply to the newly established Ebola Holding Center adjacent the TB hospital. The Minister was quick to assure the head of the hospital \u2013 Matron Kadiatu Yansanneh that the electricity service will be constant and free for the entire Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a way of responding to the clarion call of the President \u2013 Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma to fight a common enemy (Ebola), the Ministry of Energy and the National Power Authority were proud to provide a free and constant electricity supply for the above named centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry and NPA Management feel with the infected persons as customers with heavy hearts, we are highly disturbed and moved by the escalation of this dangerous killer disease (Ebola) in our beloved county \u2013 Sierra Leone. Against this backdrop therefore, NPA and the Ministry of Energy recognize the frantic effort of the government and we are proud to complement government\u2019s effort in providing free and sustainable electricity supply for the newly established Ebola Holding centre at Lakka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The high power delegation included the Minister, his Deputies \u2013 Major Ismail Koroma and Alhaji Hassan Barrie, the Permanent Secretary \u2013 Mrs. Zainab Buya-Kamara, the Energy Director \u2013 Ing. Benjamin Kamara, EDSA Director general \u2013 Ing. Alhaji Timbo, EGTC Director General \u2013 Ing. Dennis Garvie, the Project Delivery Manager \u2013 Madam NGozi Becley-Lines, The General Manager of Bumbuna 2 \u2013 Ing. Cyril Grant, Head of Rural Energy \u2013 Ing. Foday Suma, Head of Renewable Energy \u2013 Ing. Robin Mansaray and a host of other staff members from the Ministry and NPA.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Ahmed Fonike<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 27th August 2014 &#8211; The Ministry of Energy officially commissioned and handed over a 315 KVA transformer and many solar light poles around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":69979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448],"tags":[1251,19455],"class_list":["post-69978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-henry-macauley","tag-lakka-ebola-holding-center-freetown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}