Energy crisis discussed in the chamber

At the opening of the second annual session with MPs, the Senate President presented the situation consumers in different cities in the country are facing because of the energy crisis on Wednesday, June 10, 2015.

Speaking of “pressing the immediate and future” needs of people, Marcel Niat Njifenji discussed the problems of infrastructure, including the dilapidated road network, the congestion of the port of Douala and especially "the energy crisis with its share of power cuts every day”.

Once released, the President of the Senate joined in the denunciations of the situation which has become unbearable for the national economy and social framework.

Households have faced difficult times with cuts in electricity that never seem to end. Bakeries, bars and shops have all switched to the generator with the corollary deafening noise in neighborhoods.

Examination candidates are using candles or lamps to revise their lessons. In Douala, an artist has sought restitution from the electricity company for “having hindered his show after all his animation devices were destroyed due to the repeated electricity cuts one evening."

Yesterday, a statement from the Minister of Water and Energy, Atangana Kouna said “the immediate commissioning of the power plant of the Ahala infrastructure with an installed capacity of 60 MW is now operating with the current convenience of 40 MW ".

It should inject energy in the South Interconnected Network to gradually reduce the deficit with the assistance of "a slight increase in the water level, following the rains in the intermediate catchment during these past days”.