RISKY ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION PRACTICE IN SOUTH SUDAN

Lack of capacity building and awareness in juba, makes anyone claims to be electrician which causes a wide range of unnecessary deaths and damages.

 

South Sudan is a worldly new nation which separated on 09/07/2012 from Republic of the Sudan after two decades of wars.

 

Most of the people probably 7million line under illiteracy of 90% and 90% earns less than £ss2 or USD1/day. Most of counties, payams and Bomas are running without electricity supply at all.

 

Thus, Lack of electrical Healthy and safety issues such as electrical installation protection, Plant installation in hazardours environments, lack of Preventative measures to unskilled electricians for doing electrical installation work; has caused electrical injuries every now and then due to poor electrical installation practice and work. People do not know what Electricity is? How dangerous electricity is to human life and their properties and livestock’s life in juba, south Sudan.

 Houses are also being burnt from electrical fire and burns due to poor workmanship. For example south Sudan hotel in juba got burnt between 2007 and 2008; the presidential guest house also got burnt in 2012 in juba. All these electrical fire and burns occurred in juba capital city of south Sudan.

 The point of departure is how can I raise awareness of lack of Electrical Healthy and Safety issues in juba, south Sudan?  Thus your ideas into this article shall be very significant to rescue human life and property.