By Adama Makasuba
The Gambia is seeking for support from international team of technicians to come and help repair the submarine cable that breakdown on Monday.
The nation on New Year’s Day got cut off on the internet for over 14 hours sparking public outrage. The Gambia is among the countries with poor internet connection as well as high cost of internet in the World despite its ailing economy system.
But Lamin Jabbi, managing director of the nation’s submarine cable said: “We have an immediate measure which is to make sure we have a ship on the ground [and] that ship will be arriving at the site today Monday to actually do the reconnection to the trouble area.”
“We are hoping the vessel will arrive in The Gambia today Monday and possibly in the cause of next week – within three days or four days we will have the connection back,” he added.
According to him, the disruption doesn’t only affect the country but it has affected numbers of other countries that are also connected to the cable for internet services.
“The problem is not on our coastal part here. There is nothing wrong with our system,” Mr Jabbie said