Residents of Na’ibawa Eastern bye-pass in Sabuwar Abuja quarters, have expressed serious concerns over the persistent power outage in their area.
Some of the residents who spoke to The Punch on Tuesday lamented that the prolonged power outage has crippled socio-economic activities of the people in the area.
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They said the outage, which started about 10 months ago, has affected a number of businesses as owners of such businesses have been forced out of their businesses.
“This is the 10th month we are experiencing a power outage and it seems nobody is bothered about our problem,” one of the residents of the area, Ahmed Abdurrahman said.
He said, “The problem after our transformer became faulty. We reported the matter to KEDCO which later brought a new transformer for us.
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Abdurrahman said after the installation of the transformer, the KEDCO officials now requested residents of the area to contribute about N2 million reconnection fees.
“How can the company ask us to contribute such an amount of money when people are battling with how to feed themselves,” he said.
Another resident of the area, Sani Mohammad who also expressed concern over the power outage, called on the State government to come to their aid to restore power supply to the area.
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“We have been talking to people to contribute the money but the contribution is not forthcoming. So, we are calling on the state government to intervene,” he said.
Effort to contact Head, Corporate Communication Unit of the Kano Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Sani Bala Sani failed as he did not respond to several phone calls from our Correspondent.
