5 Questions for a Person Who Fixes Power Lines in Mogadishu
Apr 18, 2010
Abdinashir Mohamed Guled spends five minutes asking an employee of an electric company in Mogadishu five questions about his work.
Where are you from and what do you do?
My name is Liban Hussein, I come from the central region of Hiran. I am
An electricity technician with the Somali Energy Electricity Company.
How has your job changed in the past year?
My job has become more dangerous in the past year, when I try to fix
defects in the pylon I can be shot by one of the warring sides.
How do you provide power during constant war?
Three of my friends were killed from that type of violence. Sometimes you can be thought to be an insurgent burying a bomb when you try to move the pylon into a hole. Last year I was beaten by Somali government troops who suspected me of burying a bomb under the pylon as I was fixing it to prevent it from falling down. We do not have a good salary and we do these dangerous jobs.
What is the most exceptional thing you've ever done to make sure power kept going?
It was a rainy day and I was trying to eliminate defects in the electric cable of a pylon, a very powerful electric shock occurred. It threw me 10 paces away and I fainted. People gathered and sprinkled water on me. I regained consciousness after five hours.
If you could talk to someone who works for the electric company in New York, what would you ask?
I would ask the employee of the New York company what are the most common defects in the equipment you make? How dangerous is your electricity since it's usually built in the walls and towering pylons? Do you suffer electric shocks? We usually see them in the rainy seasons, you?
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