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40-year-old Widow Electrocuted In Ebonyi by mfonelishasblog(op): 1:10am On Oct 28, 2017
A 40-year-old dowager with three children, Mrs Joy Oluchi Osuchukwu, has been shocked to death by stripped streetlight links purportedly relinquished indiscreetly by a few authorities of Ebonyi State's Ministry of Power.

The catastrophe occurred before Udoka Hall! along Water Works Road in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi state.

The Late Oluchi hailed from Umunze people group in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, yet was hitched to Late Mr Kingsley Osuchukwu from Nneato people group in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State who kicked the bucket four years prior.

The late dowager, until the point when her demise worked at Ezza South Local Government Headquarters of Ebonyi state.

As per onlookers, the late Oluchi was returning home from the area where she had gone to bring water for residential purposes, and unconsciously ventured on the exposed links.

Some shop proprietors who were at the scene of the episode disclosed to DAILY POST that the authorities of the state's Ministry of Power had dealt with that specific streetlight link prior in the day and relinquished the exposed links.

They affirmed that they had begged them to cover it before leaving yet they gave them feeble reason that they would return later and left.

"That same day, at around 8:30pm, the lady went through that zone not realizing that there were stripped links there and she was shocked in a split second", described one of them.

At the point when DAILY POST went to her family habitation situated on No 27 Ukwansi Street behind the Udoka Hall, the Chairman of Umunze Town Union, Ebonyi State section, Mr Uchenna Joseph Obi, portrayed that her kinswoman, Oluchi, had come back from the congregation before the disaster struck.

This was even as he faulted the authorities of the state's Ministry of Power for being in charge of her unfavorable passing.

"The inhabitants of that territory revealed to us that authorities of the Ministry of Power accountable for the streetlights came toward the evening that same day and chipped away at their streetlights. They surrendered those stripped wires and left.

"In the event that you go there now, you will in any case observe those stripped wires there. They simply left them on the pathway where individuals pass frequently. We are exceptionally furious. This is lack of regard on the way of the administration authorities.

"We have reached the state representative, Chief David Umahi. We sent him an instant message. We initially reached his representative, Dr Kelechi Igwe and subsequently, reached the senator himself", he described.

In the mean time, all endeavors to achieve the state's Commissioner for Power, Chief Emmanuel Uguru, on the phone demonstrated failed as his telephone was turned off.
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SOURCE ; http://www.nevermissout.us/2017/10/40-year-old-widow-electrocuted-in-ebonyi.html

Re: 40-year-old Widow Electrocuted In Ebonyi by Yeligray(m): 1:15am On Oct 28, 2017
Negligence... Nigeria and corrective maintenance... RIP.. They have to pay heavily
Re: 40-year-old Widow Electrocuted In Ebonyi by Elibrainz(m): 1:19am On Oct 28, 2017
Yeligray:
Negligence... Nigeria and corrective maintenance... RIP.. They have to pay heavily
Am just hoping that they will all learn from this.
Re: 40-year-old Widow Electrocuted In Ebonyi by jdluv(f): 1:26am On Oct 28, 2017
electricity claimin lives this days
Re: 40-year-old Widow Electrocuted In Ebonyi by DanseMacabre(m): 6:39am On Oct 28, 2017
OP, your report is riddled with tautologies and hackneyed, grandiose phrases. It's just a news report and not an essay or feature writing, so your goal should simply be to express and not impress.
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