‘We apologise’: Info Minister admits Gov’t fell short on electricity delivery

“I just listened to Honourable Bah and I think the things he said made sense,” Dr Ceesay noted. “One thing he really said which I really support, and I think NAWEC should pay attention to, is for NAWEC to communicate better and to give people a proper load-shedding schedule. ” Dr Ceesay said the government understands public frustration over frequent outages and is not dismissing it. “There is a problem, we acknowledge that. And for us as a government, we take this as a serious national concern,” he admits, saying: “We are treating this as a national concern now and we are not taking this thing lightly. “Each government must be accountable for the services it provides. That is a fact. And President Barrow accepts this responsibility and his government accepts this responsibility that we should be accountable for the services.

” Dr Ceesay reiterated that the President takes the matter “very seriously” and that the government is working “24 hours around the clock” to resolve it. “We understand the anger and the frustration of the public insofar as this issue is concerned. We hear the frustration, we feel the frustration and we understand this frustration, and we are not dismissing it one bit,” Dr Ceesay admitted, expressing concern. “We apologise to the public for what is happening. ” When asked if the President should personally apologise, Dr Ceesay said accountability requires it. “Nothing is wrong with that. Because if you are accountable to the people, you have to provide certain services to the people and we fall short in providing that service, nothing is wrong with us apologising to the public to say, ‘Hey, we fell short’. Nonetheless, that has happened. It’s a national concern. We apologise. We understand the frustrations. ” Call for peaceful expression, no…