Nigerians experience poor electricity due to its crumbling power grid which has collapsed no fewer than six times in 2022.
Many homes and businesses experience multiple power cuts every day, but residents of Daurawa community in Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano State wouldn’t mind such little supply.
The problem is that they have none.
The people in the community which has been in existence for over a century see power in villages that are a few kilometres away but have not experienced it themselves, despite promises by the government.
Being just 24 kilometers from Kano city, one would imagine that Daurawa residents will enjoy basic amenities; but the reverse is the case.
In 2018, an individual, Prince Daniel Aboki, provided the first borehole the residents have seen, ending their 32 years experience of sharing water from a stream with animals.
They drank the stream water and cooked with it before the gift of the borehole.
No rural electrification project has taken place in the community’s 100-year existence.
A 75-year-old visually impaired Shuaibu Abdullahi says he grew up seeing his parents lament over the situation.
Sadly, Abdullahi’s aspiration to see power supply in the community was cut short five years ago when he became blind.
He is he won’t see light even if the community is connected to the national grid.
The Head of Daurawa Ward, Sabiu Lawal Daurawa says a former member of the House of Representatives, Tasiu Yellow Panisau, brought a transformer to a nearby village that was expected to serve the community.
The transformer has now been abandoned for over six years without provisions for cables and electric poles.
When contacted, the spokesman of Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO), Ibrahim Sani Shawai said the situation is beyond the company’s control.
He said only the Kano State Rural Electricity Board can handle the situation.
Our efforts to meet top officials of the board were unsuccessful.
The community is, however, expected to formally present its case in writing before the board for prompt action.
