“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...

NASARAWA ASSEMBLY SERGEANT AT-ARMS PASSES ON AS SPEAKER,MEMBERS AND STAFF EULOGISE HIS VIRTUES.{PHOTO}.#RIP.

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      Alhaji Aliyu Bako Maigida, the Makongijin Kwandare, Nasarawa State and the Sergeant At- Arms of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly is dead,
Bako Maigida was also before his death a Per time Member, Nasarawa State House of Assembly Service Commission.
He died today (Sunday) at Comprehensive Primary Healthcare kwandare, Lafia after a brief illness,,though a family source said he has been battling with prolonged diabetes.
He died at the age of Sixty Nine(69).
The speaker of the House, Rt.Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi described death of the the sergeant At- arms as painful and colossal.
A statement by press Secretary to the Speaker Jibrin Gwamna reads "on behalf of the principal officers, members and staff of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, I Rt. Hon Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, the speaker of the house condole with the family of the late sergeant At- Arms and Kwandere emirate council over the death of our dedicated and committed sergeant At- arms who is the Makongiji Kwandare"
" He was a committed staff and has contributed his quota to the development of the state assembly and the state at large while alive.
" His death is painful but God gives life and take at his own will.
" May his soul and the souls of other departed rest in peace, " the statement quotes the Speaker as saying.
The statement urged the family,associates and Kwandare Emirate Council to see his death as an act of God and prayed Allah to forgive his shortcomings.
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