Metro Kaduna: 2 Years Of Power Outage, Children, Pregnant Women Die In Chikun Local Govt

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Life has become unbearable for community residents in Chukun Local Government of Kaduna state, owing to two years of power outage, ill-equipped health centres, untarred and dusty road.

The only 300 KVA Transformer serving four different communities packed up in 2014. Residents described the situation as a total removal from the world. They are unable to watch news, and commentaries. Shop owners, welders, and those who rely on electricity for the day's work live on generators. Petty shop owners who sell cold drinks go for 'ice blocks', but lament that they don't have profitable returns on the ice blocks they purchase. Those that cannot sustain the business have shut operations.

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To stay in touch with their relatives, charging phones, and gadgets is at the rate of N100 at the only charging centre available. Those that can afford solar panels use it to power their houses.

The tenancy of only health centre in the community is subject to the owner's mood. Operators at the health centre fear that the landlord may come anytime to chase them out. The community loses children to sudden death because it lack good treatment Pregnant women find it inconvenient because they don't have a place to have their babies. These terrible situation has also led to several deaths at birth.

Residents have staged several protests to call the attention of the government to their plight but all to no avail. They have approached the state's Electricity company, the local government, the Commissioner of Police, only with promises that they will come to fix them.

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The head of Information of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company described their protests as needless and lawless. NERC recently intervened in the situation and promised to supply the community with 500KVA transformer by the end of June 2016. Now in July, the community is still in total black out, disappointed in an unfulfilled promise.

Just one year into office, The Lagos based Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies (CIAPS) awarded Governor Nasiru El-Rufai the best governor award
The CGPI is a monthly performance review of governors performance across the country, conducted by the Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies.

Laurels are useless when communities like Chukun experience difficult times. There is the urgent need for Governor El-rufai to step into this situation to better the lives of the rural communities.

This information is complimented with a news report from Channels TV, with the video below.
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