During his televised interview for Libyan WTV channel and Tabadul Platform, a Libyan civil activist and one of the participants in Tripoli’s demonstration against ongoing power outages in the city, Adel Al-Kriwi, told media personality Ahmed Sanussi that several reasons have pushed them to protest, among which the long-hour power cuts, pointing out that some areas suffer from load-shedding outages of up to three days.
He also stressed that the protest followed the letter of Khaled Shakshak, head of Libya’s Audit Bureau, to the Presidential Council calling for sacking the board of directors of the GECOL, accusing them of corruption.
“Protestors have been calling for sacking the GECOL board of directors and appointing a new one,” he said.
Al-Kriwi indicated that they are calling for holding accountable the board of directors of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) as well as its executive management, saying they should be sacked as they completely failed to resolve the problems of electricity services for years amid a deep-rooted conflict between them.
According to Al-Kriwi, protestors also demand an urgent investigation before the Chamber of Deputies concerning the Audit Bureau’s report posed by the recent statement of Khaled Shakskak.
The spokesman affirmed that they will continue to demonstrate and protest not only until meeting their legitimate demands, but also until guaranteeing to citizens a decent as well as stable life.
“The number of protestors have been equally divided into men and women,” said Al-Kriwi.