PHCN says Governor Wamakko beat their staff with whip

The management of the Kaduna
Electricity Distribution Company,
KEDC, a subsidiary of the Power
Holding Company of Nigeria,
PHCN, has accused the Governor
of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamakko,
of assaulting three of its staff in
the state for denying his
community electricity.
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.
“We therefore find it pertinent
to let the whole world know, so
that as defenseless citizens
going about our legitimate
duties, we should not be
brutalised and lynched by
powerful Chief Executives,” he
reiterated.
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.
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