By AISHA GAMBO

Residents of Bogodo and Janruwa community in Chikun Local Government Area, Kaduna state have lamented 16 months of lack of electricity supply due to faulty transformers.

The residents spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday.

The residents said they had recorded huge losses in income following the 16 months blackout.

One of the residents, Mr Titus Yuhana, said the community with about 4,000 inhabitants had remained in darkness for 16 months.

He lamented how the situation had affected small businesses in the area and the daily income of households in the area.

“We have stayed for about 16 months now without light, no single light in the community.

“We want to appeal to the government to come to the aid of the Bagodo community and assist us, particularly in putting our transformer in order,” he said.

Another resident, Mr. Ezekiel Oludare, the Chairman Janruwa transformer committee stated that the community had been in total darkness all through last year and spanning 16 months now.

Oludare appealed to the state government and other stakeholders to assist the community to restore power supply in the community.

Similarly, Mr Samuel Gbabofe, also a resident of the area, said the community has made efforts about four different times to fix the transformer in order but to no avail.

“We have written to the Kaduna Electric and we take permission from them to try to repair the transformer but to no avail.

“Right now, I will tell you that even those retailers selling, doing minor businesses like the barbing saloon, those retail shops that sell soft drinks and the rest are finding it hard,” he said.

He said the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company during a live radio programme, in February while responding to the outcry, made a commitment to provide transformers in the communities.

The Deputy Director of Kaduna Electric, Sadiq Muhammad, said that measures were being taken to address the issue and restore power supply to communities.

However, the community members said they had yet to receive a new transformer in the community more than two months after the company made the commitment. (NAN)

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