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Ikot Unah community in Ukanafun Local
Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday
peacefully protested over 10 years of power outage
in their area.
The protesters, who were mostly youths and
students on holiday, went through some of the
major streets before heading to the village palace
where they narrated their grievances.
The village head, Chief Jimmy Umoren, told our
correspondent that for the past 10 years, the village
has not seen electricity for a minute.
“There has been no sign of electricity from either
the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria or
the new Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution, not
even for a minute.
“Our hope of getting electricity is in comatose;
there is no government officials, both from the
state and the local government council at Ukanafun
have come to our aid. In the last election, we voted
for this government massively.
“The state government said it has attained 85 per
cent electricity coverage of the state through the
Inter-ministerial Direct Labour Projects while
records have shown that the Ministry of Rural
Development has also electrified about 2,209
villages out of 2,671 communities in the state to
meet government target and vision of providing
uninterrupted power supply in the state.
“But the same gesture accorded in other villages in
the state has not been extended to us at Ikot Unah
of which we feel very bad.
“What we cannot tell is whether our community has
been included in the list of the area that the state
government prided itself to have provided
electricity for,” he said.
He stated that the community had also made many
representations to the state governor, Mr. Godswill
Akpabio through the office of their council
chairman in Ukanafun but to no avail.
He added that the community had also visited
management of PHED in Uyo, the officials there
promised them that they would be at the
community to check what prevented them from
getting electricity.
He noted that the PHED has been to the community
to correct the defect and that the entire community
was still in darkness.
He said, “For a country like Nigeria with a total
population of about 170 million people with huge
economic potentialities, the provision of quality and
steady power supply is still a nightmare, especially
in a small community such as ours. What a shame!”
he exclaimed.
Umoren stated that the only health centre built by
the government six years ago has not been put to
use for lack of electricity.
www.punchng.com/news/akwa-ibom-community-protests-10-years-of-power-outage/

They should get use. to it or buy a generator

That's sad. 10yrs is not 10 days. Ur government have definately failed u. I ve one advice for u, and am gonna pull ur ears b4 saying it.............



"Don't vote PDP again".

Ten Years....dats such a long tym to stay without electricity.

Dis one is strong...........

thought some people said this man is perfect?
Akpabio is working

fashola is working

Lagos gets 168billion for 15million people and akwa ibom gets 260B for 4 million people.

both governors are trying their best but they can never solve all the problems in their respective states.

QED

What page is this in the Guinness book of world records?

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It's good to be here, in other news Asari Dokubo said it's a SCAM!!!!

Fresh air tingz...

Eleyi gidi gaan

welldone pdp

one of the results of 15yrs of good governance

Is that the reason they speak like Chinese people?

Seems there able Governor concentrated on developing UYO township while
neglecting the rural communities
He should spread his tentacles and let everybody enjoy the dividends of democracy

small thing

go to the east and see worse

them steal so tey them they steal each other bulb.

[size=13pt]10 years This country called Nigeria is too big for a central Govt. Divide and build!!!

PDP, your air is so fresh people cant breathe,

your light so bright you kept it off for 10 years,

You withold good things from Nigerians, terribly hard country, we know u just want us to be stronger, like those malnourished village farmers..

this love you are giving us is too much o, extra 4 years for you, just take it, more fresh air, infact hurricane, please!! Nigeria deserves it!![/size]

And we thought we were suffering here in Festac

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it is well tho
calm pple...afta ten yrs of electricity meltdown dem protest peacefully.... na ma warri frnds ah trust

I was here

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Like seriously? And who is the incompetent governor?
Errm....errm....ok i will be back

if na my area dem go don run comot for dia office if not na death get dem

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They love the dark cos of sxe

Probably Akwaibom community in USA because I know such is no news in this part of the world

"He noted that the PHED has been to the community
to correct the defect and that the entire community
was still in darkness."

[quote author=]again am on fp[/quote]dem go pay u salary?

And yet people are chanting and praising Akpabio to high heavens,claiming that he is working and transforming Akwa Ibom state,just because of the development they see in Uyo,the state capital. Smh.


If only they know the realities on ground in the rural areas. Tell me,what's the point in developing the urban areas,while neglecting the rural areas that contain more than 70% of the population?? Is that development?


I'm not saying Governor Akpabio hasn't done anything. Heck! He has tried,even more than his predecessor(s). But why neglect the rural areas?

My niggaz have been forgotten

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blood of God...

Jesus.