AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alsuine Rehme Wilson Some residents in Makeni, mainly women, have told Awoko Newspaper that they’re unhappy with the extensive power outage in the city and its environs especially with the way and manner the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority in the area is regulating the supply of electricity. Most of them in conditions of animosity said they’ve and are still being subjected to suffer a lot of damages with their freezers, televisions, fans plus their other electrical devices as a result of the irregular-rotational supply of lights in the city. “Our livelihood for over ten years now depends on our freezers from where we freeze and sell cold water and assorted drinks on daily basis but since EDSA started giving us on an off supply without any public notification, most of our freezers and other electrical device have been damaged, some are beyond repairs which has increased the burden on us. “Our once bright city is no longer called the city of light and it’s now hard fo...