Letter to the editor: Don’t renew Captan’s contract in November

The Editor,

LEC is killing productivity in Liberia on a scale never seen before.

For example, I am self-employed. I have been working on funding proposals. If there is no power, I can’t use my internet router to work.

Today, there is no power. I realized I had two options. Go to TRIBE’s office on Capitol Hill since it’s closer and it means less money on transportation. Alternatively, go to my partner’s office on 19th Street.

Arriving there, their office is locked due to power outages from LEC since morning. The staff, led by the boss, has to find a location in Sinkor to continue working.

What’s my next option, I thought as I walked toward the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Let me go across the street and buy $500 worth of sour milk near Stella Maris.

I crossed the street and the milk lady booth was closed because there was no power to freeze the milk. Her production for today is no use, thanks to LEC.

Now, imagine the number of small businesses that are experiencing losses a la the sour milk lady near Stella Maris. Also, imagine the self-employed like me whose zest is being killed daily because we can’t work from the comfort of our homes.

This is pure incompetence at the helm of LEC’s leadership. Mr. Monie Captan is doing a terrible job at LEC.

Under his leadership, this is the worst power outage we have experienced. Also, under his leadership as a member of the board before he was self-appointed as its CEO, LEC hired Prish Govender, a fugitive from South Africa who’s wanted for fraud.

Charles Yates and the Daily Observer published the information. Charles was threatened by Govender’s lawyer, Cllr. Benedict Sannoh, former Minister of Justice. The Observer wrote a strongly worded editorial that later disappeared.

But there is hope. Mr. Captan’s contract expires in November, according to executive mansion sources. Will President Joseph Nyumah Boakai vis-a-vis the board of LEC retain him amid the dismal performance that can be heard in cries from Paynesville to West Point that after nearly two decades, Liberia Expects Current (LEC)?

Time will tell. And so it goes.

Gboko Stewart

He/Him

News Curator 

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