AEDC life threatening wire scares Tudun Wada residents

Tudun Wada residents located behind the Federal Housing Authority risked being shocked when electricity is restored as collapsed pole with naked wire has been left unattended for days.

Specifically, those residing around Cashew area of Tudun Wada would have to keep eyes on their wards who are currently on holiday to make sure that they don’t go close to naked wire of the collapse poles.

Our correspondent reports that staff of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) whose office is situated close to ECOWAS street at Angwa Cashew were said to have been informed, but did nothing.

More worrisome to the residents is the torrential rainfall with attendant heavy storm which may collapse more poles in and around Tudun Wada and Sauka Kauta.

A concerned resident who spoke under anonymity told CAPITAL POST of the past experience of how a young girl of about 9 years was electrocuted due to negligence of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company staff who.arenin charge of Tudun Wada.

Expressing his fears, he maintained: “How could AEDC be so careless leaving this naked wire in this ever busy ECOWAS street?

“With what is happening, they want somebody electrocuted before taking action, even after the AEDC staff have been informed.

“They have been going around sharing and collecting bills even when when there is no light for the past two months.

Another resident has this to say:
“The official of the Abuja Electricity Company of Nigeria was contacted on phone on the incident and they visited the scene twice and even snaps the incident with their phone but doing nothing to help the residents”.

He called on the Minister of FCT to come to their aid by directing the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company of Nigeria to immediately restore the situation.

The call become necessary because the similar incident has killed so many people in the past at Angwa Tiv due to the same negligence and we don’t want it to happen again, so we are begging for interventions.

The residents, being law abiding citizen could not do anything by forcing official of AEDC to do what they are supposed to do but wait for federal government to help them to do needful.