Governor of Sokoto State, Northwest Nigeria, Aliyu Wamakko, has flogged a manager of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, for failing to supply electricity to his community.
Premium Times, an online news portal reports that the governor flogged the manager and ordered his security officials to assault two other PHCN staff.
The management of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, KEDC, a subsidiary of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, accused the Governor of assaulting the workers.
The Acting Managing Director of the Company, Mohammed Adamu, made this known at a press briefing late Monday at the company’s Doka office in Kaduna.
Mr. Adamu explained that the staff was summoned by the governor and was beaten to a pulp by the Governor and some of his aides.
“On Saturday, 20th October, 2012, an unusual and unfortunate event took place which was beyond our comprehension. On the said date our business manager, Gwiwa Business Unit, Sokoto state, Moses Osigwe, was invited by the Executive Governor of the State, Aliyu Magatarkada Wamakko to his personal residence, over the issue of lack of power supply to his hometown, Wamakko, as a result of a failed 2.5MVA transformer.
“He accused our staff of deliberately denying his community, Wamakko, of power supply. As the business manager was trying to explain to him, the governor just brought out a horse whip (popularly known as bulala in Hausa language) and lashed him to a pulp,” Mr. Adamu said.
The PHCN boss said the governor’s brutality did not stop at being the direct aggressor, “as he also invited and instructed two hefty mobile police men to continue with the beating spree until the business manager fell on the ground and became unconscious.”
“In the same vain, the Governor did not stop at the beating of our business manager but invited two other staff of the company namely, Isyaku Daura, Officer 2 (Electrical) and Nuruddeen Mohammed, Staff 1 (Lines) and ordered the mobile policemen to beat them up, also to a pulp,” he lamented.
He described the governor’s action as uncalled for, barbaric, and uncivilised. The Senior Special Assistant to the Sokoto state Governor, Sani Umar, when contacted on phone told reporters that he was driving and would call back. He was yet to do so as at the time of this report.
Common sense is indeed not common.
Posted: at 25-10-2012 12:04 AM (12 years ago) | Hero
nwogaraku at 25-10-2012 12:51 AM (12 years ago) (m)
The vagabonds in power!, Aboki na Aboki 4rever!!!.
Posted: at 25-10-2012 12:51 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
el-saeed at 25-10-2012 07:25 AM (12 years ago) (m)
What d hell is wrong with dis so called ALU..............I think he needs to go back to school.....this is a shame to. Sokoto state in particular and d North in General
Posted: at 25-10-2012 07:25 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie
Aquarium at 25-10-2012 08:58 AM (12 years ago) (m)
Abeg Goodluck Jonathan and the senate lets see what you're gonna do bout this. If una no impeach this man devil go punish somebody. This is a disgrace to Nigeria and Africa. Impeach the idiot.
Na me dey reign! !! !!!
Posted: at 25-10-2012 08:58 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
ONLY THE SOKOTO STATE HOUSE CAN DO THAT, THE PRESIDENT AND OTHERS DONT HAVE POWER OVER HIM
Quote from: Aquarium on 25-10-2012 08:58 AM
Abeg Goodluck Jonathan and the senate lets see what you're gonna do bout this. If una no impeach this man devil go punish somebody. This is a disgrace to Nigeria and Africa. Impeach the idiot.
Posted: at 25-10-2012 10:29 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
ONLY THE SOKOTO STATE HOUSE CAN DO THAT, THE PRESIDENT AND OTHERS DONT HAVE POWER OVER HIM
Quote from: Aquarium on 25-10-2012 08:58 AM
Abeg Goodluck Jonathan and the senate lets see what you're gonna do bout this. If una no impeach this man devil go punish somebody. This is a disgrace to Nigeria and Africa. Impeach the idiot.
Posted: at 25-10-2012 10:29 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
torrejon_men at 25-10-2012 11:07 AM (12 years ago) (m)
So what the governor wants is for the manager to use his personal money to replace d bad transformer,cant he bring out of the money he steals in a day to replace it or the money he gives to his tugs every day to buy new transformer. what a shame
Posted: at 25-10-2012 11:07 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
kai! person papa? 
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