The new director general of the Chadian Electricity Company (SNE) is Jean-Paul Mbatna. The former director general of the Agency for the Development of Renewable Energies will be assisted by Nassour Mahamat Delio.
The two executives are not entitled to the error. Their two predecessors, Mahamat Adoum Ismail and his deputy, Hamid Djouminho Djouma were fired Friday by presidential decree released Friday night by the public radio and television.
Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno has carried out this double dismissal while the country is subjected, in recent days, to major power cuts and water. Entire neighborhoods in N’Djamena, the capital, and provincial cities are plunged into darkness, sometimes for several days in a row, local observers said.
The National Hydrocarbons Company of Chad (SHT) provides SNE with 14 diesel tanks per week instead of nine as in the past to supply the generators. Inadequate fuel forces society to rotate by neighborhoods.
While waiting for the Djermaya refinery, which is supposed to supply 19 MW to SNE, to rev up, Chad is added to the long list of African oil-producing countries that do not have enough electricity.
