Having suffered for 25 days without electricity, an autonomous community in the state capital, comprising Bille, Bonny and Nembe commercial and residential areas popularly known as Ibimina Polo Community, Sekeni-Ama in Port Harcourt, has formally applied to the Rivers State Ministry of Power for an 11KV transformer.
The community led by Mr. Gospel Nyengibi, the chairman, said the community was duly registered by the Rivers State Ministry of Chieftaincy and Local Government Affairs in 2005 and has an overwhelming population of more than one million people.
The chairman said economic activities in the area has been paralyzed for the past 25 days due to the breakdown of the old transformer which also served the water front environment including part of Creek Road.
The youth president of the community, Robinson Fiberesima and his executive council, also joined the community to plead with the Honourable Commissioner of Power, Rivers State, to use his good office to expedite action on the approval of the transformer to complement governor Amaechi’s efforts against power breakdown in the state capital and the rural areas, adding that the Power Holding Ccompany of Nigeria, PHCN, officials have confirmed the transformer dead and cannot be revamped.###
Tobin Alapakabia
