Electricity restored in Yaoundé

Households in the city and its environs have confirmed receiving power after a week of intermittent supply since Sunday.

The hitherto tense atmosphere at the Energy of Cameroon (ENEO) plant at Oyom-Abang in Yaoundé VII Sub-division has since the evening of Sunday September 20, 2015 been replaced by celebration.

For one week, ENEO technicians have had to go without sound sleep and fear of the unknown due to a broken down transformer that pertubed electricity supply to the city of Yaoundé and its environs.

At the Oyom-Abang ENEO plant yesterday, September 21, 2015, work went on as usual. The overseer of the post, Jean Marie Ngatat, went about his routine activities, making sure that his staff remained in great shape after days of serious work. However, on almost every lip was the phrase “I am tired.” Almost 60 technicians gathered at the site to get the 35 MVA transformer work, it was disclosed.

The three-blocs of transformers that serve as interconnection between the generating sites of Edea and Songloulou Hydro Dam to the receptive plants of Melen, Ngoussou, Kondengui, Ahala and Mbalmayo in the Centre Region were already supplying energy after the replacement of the broken down transformer with another which was quickly ferried in from Bekoko in the Littoral Region.

The Sub Director of Transformer Maintenance at ENEO, Feudjio Philippe, revealed that the new transformer went operational last Sunday at 5:30 pm. By 6:30 pm, load-shedding was stopped with households in the entire city and neighbouring Soa, Bafia, Akonolinga, Sangmelima, amongst others reporting stable electricity supply.

Customers attest to the return to nomalcy in electricity supply. The week of load-shedding has been transformed into days of steady supply, although customers wish to see better service quality.

From Biteng to Mimboman, Tam-Tam Weekend to Damas, Mfou to Odza, Biyem Assi to Cité Verte and Omnisport to Soa, all in the Centre Region, clients say they have had constant electricity flow since Sunday evening.

Alain Désiré Noah, resident at Biteng recounts how he got the children pressed on the need to have their school uniforms set when he got back by 6 pm to realise that there was electricity supply.

“My fear was for the rationing to re-start when my children’s school outfits were not ready for the beginning of the week,” he said. “But now, it has come to stay,” Feudjio Philippe stated.