Ogooué-Ivindo: 300 households in the dark.
“In Makokou, the capital of Ogooué-Ivindo, the Ngouabi neighborhood has been relying on generators for nine days. The culprits
t he logging trucks of a forestry company, which have successively torn down eleven SEEG cable spans, leaving 300 households without electricity since March 23.
The incident began on Monday around 5 p.m., when a KHLL truck brought down the first low‑voltage lines over a distance of 700 meters. The next day, a heavy‑equipment carrier finished the job. ‘We’ve been plunged into darkness since 10 a.m., without water, without a fridge, without anything,’ said Odette Nze Mendoume, the residents’ spokesperson. The immediate reaction was to block the log trucks’ route with a barrier: ‘No power, no passage.
SEEG technicians have confirmed the damage, but residents refuse to back down until power is restored. This road, essential for logging operations, has become the scene of a standoff between economic operators and exhausted inhabitants. Local authorities, silent until now, are expected to intervene to resolve a crisis that exposes the fragility of an already precarious network facing the giants of the timber industry.
In Ogooué-Ivindo, this outage is more than an inconvenience — it is a warning signal. When the survival of households collides with the interests of the timber industry, peace of mind is measured in kilowatts.
