Taï, Apr 04, 2022 (AIP) – Minister Anne Désirée Ouloto, also President of the Cavally Regional Council, proceeded on Sunday March 03, 2022 during a ceremony in the village of Kéibly, to the official launch of the powering up electricity from the department of Taï.
With a large delegation of executives and local elected officials, Ms. Ouloto crisscrossed the department for this purpose. Then, after seeing firsthand the installation and effective operation of the outgoing electrical transformer station located in Zagné, this delegation did the same in Taï, to ensure the quality of the transmission to the relay station which is find there.
Subsequently, the composite audience of personalities present joined the populations gathered for the occasion in the public square of Kéibly, a locality straddling the sub-prefecture of Zagné and the capital of the Taï department, for the actual start of the power-on ceremony.
Joining the gratitude expressed by most of the speeches, the mayor of the commune of Taï, Hyppolite Bayalla, declared that “no words could express our gratitude for this energizing which now makes our locality more attractive for major development players whose activities depend exclusively on electrical energy.”
Through this ceremony, it is a question of connecting, in the long term, the whole of the department of Taï, to the national medium voltage electricity network, a project for which the company Côte d’Ivoire-Energies has been in charge of the execution since 2017. This official launch of the powering up of Taï, apart from the supply of the first five localities, will extend to three others from next week and gradually to all the villages of the department, including those which were not initially planned in the project like Tienkoula, Vodelobly and Gahably, by the end of the year 2022, the time of the tests and technical adjustments of use, one indicates.
After the popular jubilation that accompanied the symbolism energized by the President of the Regional Council, whose intervention was a call for “sacred union around the common ideal of development and social cohesion”, the ceremony is completed by donations to the guests.
On the sidelines of the ceremony, the land chief of Zagné, Bah Téhé, maintained that “the collective memory of the department will remember with gratitude that it was under the governance of the Head of State, Alassane Ouattara, that Taï was erected in the department and then electrified”, while hoping that these happy events will not overshadow the other needs of the department such as the urgency of the decongestion of the modern college of Zagné, by the construction of new classrooms.
Erected as a department on March 22, 2013 with two sub-prefectures, Taï was until now one of the last departments in the country not yet connected to the national electricity grid. Taï, the capital of the department, was powered by a generator which was permanently switched off in favor of the electricity network.
Source: Agence Ivoirienne De Presse