Chief Operating Officer of Delagua Group,Euan McDougall, has briefed the Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, on the state of his company’s activities in Sierra Leone since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the company and the Ministry of Energy.
It could be recalled that in August 2022, the Minister of Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delagua Group for the provision of a huge quantity of cook stoves to rural communities in the country in line with the Ministry’s quest to enhance female access to modern energy by investing in clean cooking fuel and household energy.
Giving an overview of his company’s activities in the last one year,Mr. McDougall first expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Minister for the support his company had received, adding that since the signing of the MoU, Delagua had imported and distributed some 27,000 cook stoves to beneficiary families in rural communities on a free-of-charge basis.
He said his company had taken steps to genuinely invest in the energy sector and assured of his desire to not only enhance or sustain these gains but to expand the scope and scale of his company’s investments in the country.
The Chief Operating Officer went on to say that his company had conducted some 20,000 educational household surveys, with the remaining 7,000 to be completed in September this year, noting also that a country team had now been set up with full time staff and volunteers.
In response, Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, thanked Mr. McDougall for the updates, noting that the Government of Sierra Leone was looking forward to effectively collaborating with Delagua.
He said his Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change was working on exploring every executive or legal avenue to take the MoU to Cabinet with a view to translating the bilateral agreement between the Ministry of Energy and Delagua into a government policy through the endorsement of Cabinet.
Mr. Sesay thanked Mr. McDougall for the comprehensive report.
