The people of Sawobe a farming community in the Bufiama Electoral Area of the Wa East District, has appealed to the district assembly to facilitate the process of extending electricity to the Sawuobe community.
They indicated that the intervention would not only improve the social and economic lives of the people in the community but would also help enhance the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the community.
“There are Junior High School children here, and they are supposed to learn at home not only in the school but because there are no lights, they cannot do that”, he explained.
Meanwhile, some residents of the community had also raised concerns that the lack of electricity in the community was adversely affecting the holistic development of their children as well as the social and economic activities of the people in the community.
Balibie Juliana, the leader of the women group in the community, said the lack of electricity was retarding the education of their children as they were unable to learn at night.
She added that they had to access services that required the use of electricity including charging mobile phones and milling from other communities, which was a source of worry to them. ‘’ I have a mini solar but I can’t use it to watch Tv, it can’t even charge my phone’’.
“Our children are lagging in education. After school, they cannot learn again until they go back to school or unless the daytime.
“I have only one torchlight in the house and that is what I use for cooking, so I cannot stop cooking and give it to my child to learn, by the time I will finish cooking it is late, how will the child learn again”.
The community members mentioned that, in 2016, the then governing political party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), brought over thirty (30) electricity poles to the community with the intention of connecting them to the national grid but unfortunately they could not connect the community before they lost power.
