Several Libyan areas suffered sudden power cut on Friday, prompting Dbeibeh to inspect the General Electricity Company.
The PM stressed that his government will spare no effort in providing electric power, facilitating financial procedures and concluding new contracts.
He urged citizens to protect the electric power grid and ordered the Interior Minister to open a probe into the matter in all affected areas.
He further called for connecting the power grids in eastern and western Libya, noting that this could only be implemented by opening the coastal road between Sirte and Misrata cities.
The General Electricity Company had announced a complete power outage for two consecutive days in the eastern region and in most of the western region areas due to a kaboom.
The company later said that 90 percent of the power plants had been restored.
In a visit to Tajoura city in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, Dbeibeh stressed that those who "ignite war, cause power cuts, create problems in the queues outside gas stations and prevent us from communicating with people across Libya are the enemies of the Libyan people."
He warned of whom he described as "war merchants," stressing that many have amassed their fortune from this war.
Dbeibeh said his foreign tours are aimed at restoring Libya’s unity and illusory sovereignty and expelling mercenaries.
Some sources interpreted his comments as an escalation in his silent dispute with Marshall Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...in eastern Libya.
"We couldn’t access Sirte Airport, which belongs to Libya and is on Libyan soil, because of the foreign forces present there," Dbeibeh said.
He added that the forces stationed in the area asked them to enter Sirte by road, "but the government refused."
Notably, Dbeibeh postponed a visit to the country’s east that had been planned for April 26 to demonstrate his government’s progress in ending years of division between warring factions.