Monrovia – On a wet Wednesday, the Managing Director of the Liberia Electricity Cooperation Foday Soko Sackor was seen in central Monrovia along with his crew changing broken and burnt poles, replacing burnt transformers and rerunning lines.
“At the start of the rain, we are already having heavy thunder storms; we take a hit on our network, to take precautionary measures to strengthen our network,” Sackor said.
Sackor averred that the cooperation action is to avert outages during the peak of the rainy season adding that customers can be assure of reliable power flow.
“Rehabilitate transformers, broken poles. If we don’t do it early we will risk the reliability of our power, we are changing poles and inspecting, we rerun lines, simple things like that could cause us to lose customers, the customers can certainly be assured, that this rainy season our team is fully deployed rain or shine,” LEC Managing Director said.
Assistant Managing Director for Operations Joseph Howe stressed the need for community cooperation in order to have a more effective LEC.
“We are moving out to the community instead of the community informing us about their problem, we going out to see and solve them right away, you will see our crew connecting all around the place, the community needs to help LEC, we do not sent individual we send a crew to the community, power theft is a crime,” Howe said.
LEC Assisting Manager Director for Operations said the cooperation is committed to providing a stable flow of power during the rains.
“At LEC our responsibility is provide reliable electricity for our customers, we want to maintain the lines and ensure our customers that those rotten poles in their community are going to be replaced, we will provide non- stop power to our customers,” Howe said.
Howe continued: “we moving around town where we have burn cables, rotten poles we replace them, in some instances we connect new customers, so that we provide more load to Mt. Coffee, the MD has instructed us to move more rapidly.”
Customers recently have been raising concern about change in the meter but the Managing Director of LEC says it meant to make the cooperation more efficient and accessible.
“We have system where we have a smart meter grid. Going forward it will increase the number of customers vending on our system, you cannot bypass those meters, those meter are GPRS sensitive you know, they can’t be stolen,” Sackor said.
Sackor said customers will be alerted when their meter is off adding that LEC will be letting them know instead of the customers calling as it is currently done.
“Pretty soon we now at LEC, what we will be able to do, we will be calling you and letting you know that you are off and we are sending somebody to you,” Sackor said.
Sackor continued: “We will be selling LEC credit like scratch cards, where you will no longer have to go and stand in long queue at vending centers, just how you buy your scratch card for your phone you get LEC credit through scratch card, we can’t be selling a product you can’t access, the more you can access it the more money I make for the country.”
The LEC boss expressed joy over the new system introduces and lavished praises on the team at the cooperation.
“The vending system we have in place is superb, as we grow smart and our grid grows smart we will be able to monitor the activities on our feeders, it is something I’m excited about, we will be making sure that those who are not on the system will get on the system,” Sackor said.