Tuesday, May 12, 2015
One Day On, One Day Off! Lagos Community Women Place 'Juju' In Transformer House To Protest Light Shedding
The above picture is no joke. It shows charm being placed at the entrance of a transformer house which serves an area in Agbado/Oke-Ode LCDA of Alimosho Local Government.
According to a report by Olajide Obi, this incident occured at Akinola Area of Agbado/Oke-Ode LCDA of Alimosho Local Government area of Lagos State.
He reports: This above occultic means was adopted when every other means to restore the Electricity supply of the area failed. It was said that the area has been experiencing a power shedding of a day on, a day off and in the one day they are supposed to have the light it will only come for like 2 hours and that is all for that day.
According to a resident of the area who spoke to our correspondent on the incident going on in the area said, "the power shedding in our area has be going on for the past eight years, so many approaches has been adopted in the past to make thing better for the community in terms of electricity but all to no avail" it was further stated that there was a time the youth of the area went as far as going on media to help the course but some elders of the community jeopardized their efforts and make police arrest the leaders of the youths.
"This time around the fight is now championed by the women of the community and series of letters has been taking to the PHCN Alausa, this is because we hardly have light for 48 hours in 30 days and will will have to pay PHCN bills at the end of the month" He said.
"And this occultic approach is what has been resulted to since the consultation and dialogue approaches has failed, we prefer not to have the light at all that to continue paying for what we did not use" said another resident who claim anonymous.
Efforts to get in touch with the leader of the women fighting for the emancipation of the Akinola/ Aboru Community or any of the member of the group proved abortive.
He reports: This above occultic means was adopted when every other means to restore the Electricity supply of the area failed. It was said that the area has been experiencing a power shedding of a day on, a day off and in the one day they are supposed to have the light it will only come for like 2 hours and that is all for that day.
According to a resident of the area who spoke to our correspondent on the incident going on in the area said, "the power shedding in our area has be going on for the past eight years, so many approaches has been adopted in the past to make thing better for the community in terms of electricity but all to no avail" it was further stated that there was a time the youth of the area went as far as going on media to help the course but some elders of the community jeopardized their efforts and make police arrest the leaders of the youths.
"This time around the fight is now championed by the women of the community and series of letters has been taking to the PHCN Alausa, this is because we hardly have light for 48 hours in 30 days and will will have to pay PHCN bills at the end of the month" He said.
"And this occultic approach is what has been resulted to since the consultation and dialogue approaches has failed, we prefer not to have the light at all that to continue paying for what we did not use" said another resident who claim anonymous.
Efforts to get in touch with the leader of the women fighting for the emancipation of the Akinola/ Aboru Community or any of the member of the group proved abortive.
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