On July 4th of this year, the Boko Haram terrorist organization attacked and destroyed Nigeria’s 132 KV Biu-Damboa-Maiduguri electricity power lines supplying most parts of Borno State including the capital. Borno, traditionally known as the “State of peace,” already suffering five years of unbearable loss of life, livelihood and hope from unchecked, free reigning terror, was rendered into pitch darkness; rent into the stone ages. With no power, the people who already have lost most telecom masts and managed the available limited phone network, now virtually lost every capacity to communicate with themselves and the outside world. Even worse, with no power as their Armageddon continues, they have been disconnected from the outside world and are unable to know what is happening in the world and what the world is doing or is not doing to help them. Prior to the power truncation, details of Boko Haram carnage were more readily supplied to the media and reports on the pogroms, not only by the terrorists, but also by suspect Nigerian military commanders was also more readily furnished to local and international human rights organizations. The deliberate power cut serves to put some of the most oppressed people in the world, a people being aggressively displaced and annihilated, the Borno people in a black box, cleaved from all who may be concerned and determined to reverse their failed, corrupt and deadly clueless system enforced fate. After the power lines were cut, there was a transient repair of the 33kv lines—these are industrial lines which several rich people tap into as the lines are known to carry steady power all season. However when these 33kv lines were restored they only lasted 5 days as they were again purposefully sabotaged. The military claimed Boko Haram severed the lines however the Power company, TCN workers and locals say it was actually the Nigerian military that sabotaged and destroyed the repaired lines. The result—no power to Borno people. - See more at: abujavoice/stone-ages-5-months-of-blackout-in-maiduguri-borno-isolates-state-lost-to-terrorists/#sthash.2rQJvzHJ.dpuf
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:40:47 +0000
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