More victims of the construction of WAPP’s electricity energy towers are going without financial compensation on damages suffered.

The West Africa Power Pool Project (WAPP), is to provide energy power supply to the Mano River countries: Cote d’ Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

About 225 kw power transmission lines with a speed of 1,303 km are to run through 11 sub-stations in Sierra Leone alone.

Sierra Leoneans will stand to benefit from this electricity supply, but there have now been some victims on the ongoing construction work.

Under the laws of Sierra Leone, these people must be compensated.

Best principles require that potential victims or those who’ve already suffered damages on especially construction activities of public and private companies are required to be paid immediately before or after an incident or project completion.

This is done to ensure that the aggrieved person (s) feels somewhat satisfied for a wrongful act against him or her.

Sometimes, companies would pay off people whom they think may be affected by their activities on some construction work, be it a construction road, overhead line works, a thermal plant construction, etc.

Governments of Sierra Leone would usually expend a lot of resources on people especially the citizenry whenever mega construction works are done at specific areas or across the country.

Meanwhile, the ongoing construction of WAPP’s power poles is causing severe problems on people.

Some safety standards have not been met by EDSA’s hired workers mainly within the urban towns.

The Energy Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) is the national electricity power supplier in the country. It is supervising WAPP’s project.

But, in the meantime, WAPP’s ongoing construction work is creating safety risks for people.

Pits have been left opened, and trees have been cut down on people’s houses.

At Calaba Town, last month, a truck had fallen on a side pit at Basharia Islamic Primary School around K-Step.

And many vehicles are at risks of falling off into these unattended wide pits created.

Now, as the rains fall heavily, some holes have become filled with water especially in market surroundings.

Frogs, rodents, lizards are dying into the uncovered pits which have been lying there for days.

Mosquitoes and house flies are breeding in these holes with the potential to cause diseases like malaria, cholera, and fever on people.

Waterloo, which is about 32 miles off the capital Freetown, has many unattended pits which had been long opened up.

Africa24 spoke with one of WAPP’s project co-ordinator to know their plans for victims on the electricity power lines construction.

He, however; directed us to EDSA whom he said reserves the authority to be interviewed about WAPP’s project in Sierra Leone. And a staff at EDSA, when contacted, via Whatsapp, couldn’t respond to our questions on the matter.