BY STAFF REPORTER
Following the two year-long conflict in the northern part of the country, some areas have been left without electricity for over a year and plus months for the reason electric infrastructure facilities were damaged due to the war. As a result, the people were compelled to live in darkness for months.
Luckily, subsequent to the government’s commitment to repair damaged power plants and infrastructure thereby accessing essential services in the northern part of the country, the restoration activities are ongoing effectively.
With the unreserved; wide-ranging efforts of employees of the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) to restart electricity power in those areas; currently, electric supply has been resumed in some of the towns and residents are expressing their delight.
Last Sunday, the electricity service, which had been interrupted for 15 months in Sekota Town and the surrounding areas, resumed after extensive maintenance activities were completed, ENA reported.
According to Kiros Farede, Sekota Service Center Head with the Ethiopian Electric Utility, since July 16/2013, the districts of the Wag Hemera Zone, Sekota Town, had been completely out of service for a year and a half month. However, he said that due to the intensive maintenance works carried out day and night by experts from Addis Ababa,
Bahr Dar and Woldeya districts to restore the electric infrastructures, the areas have now been able to getting electricity service.
The town was able to get the service following the unrestricted three days long maintenance works of the experts on damaged infrastructure and the like repairing works on the 66 kilovolt high power transmission line from Alamata-Sekota, he added.
The recommencement of the service will lessen the sufferings and economic burden of the community who was suffering due to the interruption of electricity service. He also urged the community to properly protect and maintain the electrical infrastructure.
Shemelis Wolde-Semayat, Woldia District Director with the Utility on his part said that the maintenance work was carried out untiringly and speedily in order to bring the local community out of the darkness. In turn, it was possible to restore the service so soon.
The valiant, devoted, hardworking
employees of the Utility, after three days of meticulous maintenance activities, they can resume electricity services in Sekota Town in a short period of time. The local residents have also expressed their happiness warmly. The utility will continue brightening up the remaining areas.
It will be remembered that Lalibela, Kobo, Alamata and surrounding districts benefited from the electricity service a few days ago due to a measure taken by electrical service experts to resume the services.
Singing the same tune, Ethio telecom is also working to repair and resume the services in war affected areas. As it has recently announced, some areas, including Alamata, Korum, Adi Arkai, Tselemt, Chiro Lena, Gobye Kobo, Kobo, Robit, Zoble and Waja towns that telecom services were cut off for long, have now started get the services. Further efforts are also ongoing to repair damaged infrastructures and resume the services before long in other areas too.
It will be remembered that in earlier days due to the energy exerted by experts of the Utility in taking corrective maintenance on those conflict-ridden areas to resume the services, a few days ago towns such as Waja, Timuga, Lalibela, Korum, Kobo, Alamata and surrounding districts are connected; and localities have started benefitting from the service.
The Ethiopian Herald November 8/2022
