By Amadu Lamrana Bah
Alhaji Ibrahim Kanja Sesay has resigned effective immediately as Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy as the country’s electricity crisis continues.
The reasons for his resignation haven’t been made public but a family source told me that Mr. Sesay believes that he is being undermined by the Ministry of Finance over the payment of the over US$40 million debt to the Turkish Karpowership.
Kanja, the right-hand man of His Excellency Julius Maada Bio was appointed in 2018 to take over the country’s energy sector and his first major intervention to address the energy situation was to sign a contract with the Turkish Karpowership, an agreement that he said was saving the government US$18 million and negotiated in the interest of the country.
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As Kanja, the longest-serving Energy Minister in recent times leaves, the country is still faced with an energy crisis that recently caused the death of a baby at one of the biggest referral hospitals in the capital, Freetown.
About a week ago, President Bio reportedly gave an ultimatum that he would personally take over the energy sector if the ongoing energy crisis is not addressed.
Perhaps the President will now put the Energy Ministry under his office with direct supervision to address the prolonged power outage.
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