BY THE GUARDIAN REPORTER
12th November 2013
The president also ordered rural electricity supply and connection firms to speed up their work reminding them that the target is to reach at least 1,600 villages in the shortest time possible.
“All other countries have developed through investment in electricity and for us this includes supply to our rural areas,” said the president who is on a three day official visit to Geita.
The President was addressing hundreds of wananchi at the inauguration ceremony in Buseresere/Katoro area in Geita region - where at least 14 villages are expected to get electricity from the project.
Estimated to have cost at least USD 21,477,181 (approximately 36.3bn/-) the project is meant to reach at least 3,500 homes in Geita, Chato and Nyang’hwale districts all in Geita region and Msalala district in Shinyanga region.
The President also took the time to respond to a number of complaints from the wananchi in a bid to alleviate their concerns and to hear, first hand, of their experiences in the course of the project’s execution.
“You have heard for yourselves the complaints raised by the residents…the speed of electricity connection is just too slow,” the president said “…therefore,” he told the project coordinators “…let’s increase the speed of setting up these connections so that we complete the job the soonest possible,” the President said.
In a related development, the President early on Sunday also inaugurated Masumbwe water project in Shinyanga, valued at 341m/- and one of many other World Bank projects being carried out across 10 villages in the region.
While in the region, president Kikwete also inaugurated a maternity ward at Iboya health centre in Mbogwe division valued at 57m/-.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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