The PHCN has cut off supply to some government institutions in the state in reaction
The Sokoto State Government has debunked reports that a PHCN official was assaulted by the governor.
Sani Umar, Gov. Aliyu Wamakko’s spokesman, made the denial in Sokoto on Thursday. He described the report as “an attempt to discredit Wamakko’s administration”.
?The issue of the alleged beating is mischievous and an attempt to bring the government into public disrepute,” Umar said.
A statement jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Sokoto/Zamfara State Council of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) Abubakar Sani and Yusuf Abdulkarim, claimed that the governor personally assaulted some PHCN officials who came to his house in Wamakko to inspect a faulty transformer.
As a result, the union noted that its members felt that they were no longer safe in the state, while its executive council resolved to withdraw its members from all PHCN formations. They also resolved to ensure a total blackout in the state till further notice. To pursue this, the PHCN had since disconnected electricity supply to some public institutions in the state.
The institutions that are affected by the disconnection include the Government House, Sokoto; the state Water Board; the state Specialist Hospital and Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto.
On this development, Umar said that “the PHCN is only looking for public sympathy”.
“They collected N17 million from the state government and they failed to repair the transformer after removing it five times.
“The PHCN is on an economic sabotage mission in the state. The matter is being handled by the security agencies and the state Commissioner for Justice,” he said.
