Residents of Use Offot Community around the market to the precincts of the University of Uyo Permanent site have issued a save our souls cry to the State Government, Ministry of Rural Development and Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to urgently restore electricity to the area.
Speaking to our correspondent, a resident in the area Mr Gideon Ekiko disclosed that, for nearly two months now, the okd transformer which serves hundreds of homes in the area blew up and packed up.
Ever since, and with representations made to PHCN and the Ministry, nothing has been forthcoming as residents in the area suffer untold hardship and businesses suffer incalculable losses as a result of the neglect.
Another resident, Chief James Ebuot, wondered why so many transformers are lying waste in the ministry when so many communities even in the middle of Uyo, the city of Uncommon transformation are transformed into darkness. Chief Ebuot pleaded with the authorities to look into the pitiable plight of the community as the other time it happened they spent two years in utter neglect and darkness before anything was done about it.
Attempts to reach the PHCN management to speak on the issue was rebuffed. But a staff who pleaded anonymity told our reporter that, it is the Ministry of Rural Development that is yet to respond to their request for the release of a new transformer to replace the old one.
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