₦airaland Forum

justmenoni:
Some people will run here now and blame pdp/GEJ well na dem sabi... But some weeks ago some lieing liars we're jubilating that electricity has improved rapidly so what's wrong again abi kaduna is in Niger or Chad? ?

Overloading may be the reason.

DONSMITH123:
Youths of Kamanzo Community in Kaduna metropolis have embacked on protest over alleged 10 months of power outage in the area.

The protest which erupted on Monday, saw the youths barricade the Ibrahim Yakowa Road, causing gridlock for over two hours.

The District Head of Kamanzo Community, Malam Dan-Makama, who confirmed the development, said that he had personally written to KEDCO on the matter, but the effort had yielded no result.

However, he appealed to the protesting youths to return to their homes, to prevent the situation from becoming violent.

According to him, “I have a generator in my house, but I had to stop using it to identify with my people.

“This is because it is going to be unfair that I have electricity because I can afford it, while my people are living in the dark,” Dan-Makama said.

Meanwhile, all efforts by the police, led by the Divisional Police Officer for Sabo Area of the city, Mr. Olalekan Odumosun, to disperse the crowd were futile, as the youths, women and children refused to budge.

Speaking on behalf of the community, Mr. Suleimanu Haruna told newsmen that the area had been without power supply for 10 months.

According to him, all efforts by the community to get the attention of the Kaduna Electric Distribution Company, KEDCO, to remedy the situation were unsuccessful.

The spokesman explained further that the company had removed the two transformers serving the community after repeated breakdown due to overloading.

Haruna said, “This development (overloading) resulted to rationing of electricity supply in the area, while the transformers kept having problems until they finally packed up.

“We have written to KEDCO on several occasions with no positive response. We are tired of writing; which is why we came out on the street to draw the government’s attention to our plight.

“The KEDCO officials have removed the transformers, with a promise to replace them; but this is more than 10 months ago and so far, nothing has been done.
“We cannot continue living in the dark,” Haruna noted.

When contacted, KEDCO’s Head of Media and Community Relations, Mr. Idris Muhammad, confirmed the power outage, stating that the community needed three transformers for immediate use.

Muhammad, who denied that the company was charging customers without electricity supply, said, “We planned to provide five transformers to the community because it is growing very fast. So far, efforts are underway to provide three transformers before the end of the week.

“One is ready, the second one has no accessories yet for it to start working, while the third one that blew up is being repaired.
“In the event we fail to make them available before the end of the week, we will get back to the community, to prevail on them to maintain peace, before the transformers are made available,” Muhammad added.

The situation was however brought under control with the intervention of the military and other security personnel attached to the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, who appealed to the protesters for calm, promising to intervene on the matter.

Cc: lalasticlala

http://dailypost.ng/2016/01/04/kaduna-youths-block-roads-protest-10-month-power-outage/

/ in this same Kaduna we have bn having uninterrupted power supply

I live here in Kaduna, at Barnawa to be precise and I can confirm that most of the urban areas enjoy at least 18hours of light consistently on daily basis. I for one haven't used my generator for the past four months because I also have an inverter. The problem with Karmazo and some of the emerging areas is that of poor planning by the immediate past administration and greedy village heads who just keep selling lands without working out the corresponding infrastructural support for the growing population. In any case, the immediate past PDP led government did nothing for the state except build a multi-billion naira government house commissioned by a certain GEJ. So before you make conclusions on the present government, do try to get ur facts right. Me sef wey dey Kaduna no know about this protest; until I see am for here. Yet jobless bone heads wey dey miles away dey wail like say their papa join the protest.

dragonking2:
If this has happened in the south east you would have been shouting and masturbating all over the thread that they want to sabotage buhari government.... Children of hate!!!!

Yes we hate u big time. Awon oloriburuku somebory

They won't blame it on that, we know them..

slimfit1:
Overloading may be the reason.

hmohammed:
Yes we hate u big time. Awon oloriburuku somebory

We also hate you too....bastard!!!

dragonking2:
We also hate you too....bastard!!!

Please leave Nigeria for us cos we have better thing to do with our oil money

hmohammed:
Please leave Nigeria for us cos we have better thing to do with our oil money

Which oil money? you want to claim our oil abi? I am from delta state, if we are to leave, we leave with our oil...Where are u from? ole