Energy savers in UEDCL stores have not expired
Nov 07, 2010
EDITOR: I would like to bring it to your attention that one of the articles by your reporter Ibrahim Kasita published on October 12 entitled "Over 250,000 bulbs rot in city stores" was not properly researched.
EDITOR: I would like to bring it to your attention that one of the articles by your reporter Ibrahim Kasita published on October 12 entitled "Over 250,000 bulbs rot in city stores" was not properly researched.
Arising out of that article, an editorial in the New Vision of October 14 demanded an answer why the Government could borrow money, buy the bulbs and leave them to rot. A number of people who read the article and the editorial have been asking us to explain why we should let Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFLs) expire causing financial loss to the Government.
I would like to reiterate that the article was not based on facts and sent a very wrong message to the public which needs to be corrected.
Unlike cells and medicine, CFLs are electronic goods which do not expire when not in use.
On our part we have attempted to correct this by writing an article in the section of adverts (which could have been missed by many readers) which ran on November 29 entitled “Energy savers in the UEDCL stores have not expired.
It is essential that this impression is corrected.
James Baanabe
Acting Commissioner
Energy Resources Department
Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Development
Arising out of that article, an editorial in the New Vision of October 14 demanded an answer why the Government could borrow money, buy the bulbs and leave them to rot. A number of people who read the article and the editorial have been asking us to explain why we should let Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFLs) expire causing financial loss to the Government.
I would like to reiterate that the article was not based on facts and sent a very wrong message to the public which needs to be corrected.
Unlike cells and medicine, CFLs are electronic goods which do not expire when not in use.
On our part we have attempted to correct this by writing an article in the section of adverts (which could have been missed by many readers) which ran on November 29 entitled “Energy savers in the UEDCL stores have not expired.
It is essential that this impression is corrected.
James Baanabe
Acting Commissioner
Energy Resources Department
Ministry of Energy and Mineral
Development