KOTA KINABALU: Some 200 villagers in Sabah's south-western Tawau district had to celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri without electricity.
In fact, the villagers of Kampung Luasong – 74km from Tawau town – had been without electricity since the start of the fasting month after a diesel generator set up by Yayasan Sabah broke down.
"It is the only source of power for the villagers pending the completion of the long-delayed Luasong Rural Electricity Supply Scheme ," he said during a recent visit to Kampung Luasong. He also hoped the BELB project would be accelerated so that the residents no longer had to rely on generators that frequently broke down.
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