Fallen NEPA cables may electrocute Akalites.
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Last month, there was a heavy rainfall in Umuaka community which lasted for more than an hour with heavy storm. The rain which started in the late afternoon hours stopped around 6:30 pm of the same day after wrecking heavy havoc across the 10 communities of Umuaka Municipal Council. From the havoc impact assessment Umuaka Times carried out a couple of days ago, it was gathered that almost all the ten villages in the old Umuaka town suffered heavy losses via the falling of electric poles and other economic trees.
The electric poles which fell down also fell along with the high voltage wires. From the day of the heavy rainfall till today, Umuaka Times gathered that the NEPA engineers etc. have not deemed it fit to neither restore electricity nor issue any press statement to warn the people against the dangers of making close contacts with the naked cables.
School children and some illiterate indigenes in Umuaka especially in the villages where the electric poles fell, have continued to move closer to the fallen poles and cables not knowing the dangers associated with touching or nearing the them.
Last week, Umuaka Times made a brief video documentary where NEPA engineers, community leaders and presidents-general were called upon to swing into actions immediately and remove the dangerous cables.
As at now, the process of removing the fallen electric poles is yet to begin and nobody knows exactly the hour or day NEPA will switch on electricity to the areas. If this is done without a prior notice to the citizens, electrocution may find a deep expression in the entire Umuaka community.
