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Ethiopia: EEPCo Adding Colour to Addis' Streets

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Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)

10 September 2007
Posted to the web 10 September 2007

Issayas Mekuria

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has allotted close to one million Birr for the decoration of the metropolis' trunk roads with glowing lights the Millenium Festivities. Within the past two weeks the Corporation has adorned the city with 48,000 bulbs.

Though EEPCo initially set out to hang the bulbs on the route stretching from Africa Avenue (Bole Road), where the grand festival will be celebrated in the Millennium concert hall, to Arat Kilo and around its main office in Piazza, it is installing the lights on other roads at the request of some governmental agencies and districts.

"As per the request of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation, Airport, Grand Palace and districts, we are decorating many streets," Moges Belachew, district system and customer service department head at the Corporation, told Fortune.

It was during the 10-year commemoration of the military regime and the establishment of the Ethiopian Workers Party that such massive numbers of bulbs resembling the national flag were last hung.

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All the decoration bulbs were procured from local retail stores. The bulbs and electric accessories were purchased for 750,000 Br but the cost of the goods in regional towns has yet to be identified.

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