Whipps only got a vote of 4-6 while Yano was unable to get the majority vote. Yano secured a vote of 8-4; he needed nine votes to get confirmation.
Whipps after the Senate voting requested the president to withdraw his nomination.With this, President Johnson Toribiong immediately nominated businessmen Shallum Etpison and George Ngiraklasong to the board.Toribiong told reporters that he believes that business minded individuals are best suited to the board.Earlier the president accepted the resignations of two members of the PPUC board at the height of the power crisis.With this, Palau is back on a 24-hour power supply after PPUC was able to put on line one of the big engines at the Malakal Power Plant.Presently, PPUC is no longer implementing power rationing after the power deficiency of 1. 6 megawatt was addressed due to the repair of engine no. 12 which has a capacity of 2.8 MW.
