Western Equatoria State Governor Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro says that the Egyptian government is ready to help install electrical power in his state capital Yambio, seven years after the town power went off-line.

The governor spoke to the press on Monday upon his returned from Egypt. He said that the purpose of his trip was to discuss economic ties with the Egyptian goverment. He noted that Egypt has shown readiness to invest in his state’s agricultural sector.

“We went as a delegation of the Western Equatoria government to meet the Minister of Electricity in Egypt to discuss the electrification of Yambio, which has stayed for about seven years without operation,” Bakosoro said.  

The Egyptian government donated a power generator for the town seven years ago, Bakosoro said, but since then it has broken down and the company enlisted to operate the machine did not maintain it properly.

He said that the Egyptian government has shown readiness to dispatch engineers that will come to work on the machine and later will hand it over back to the state government to manage its operation.

Governor Bakosoro noted also that he managed to meet with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who introduced him to Egyptian investors willing to come and invest in Yambio.

Bakosoro was accompanied by two state ministers. His visit comes shortly after the governor of neighboring Western Bahr al Ghazal State also made a trip to Egypt.

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