Through determined efforts, I can report that we have now averted the looming threat of power outages and began delivering fuel to the thermal plants in the east in advance of the shutdown of the West African gas pipeline.
Similar timely interventions have been necessary in areas such as education where an acute food shortage was a major problem when schools were ordered to reopen on the 3rd of January. We have put in short-term measures to ensure that our children have adequate food so that they can go ahead with their learning.
