“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...

LAGOS: 15TH ANNUAL TOWNHALL MEETING ON SECURITY.[PHOTOS].#PRESS RELEASE.

 PHOTOS: GOV. BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU AT THE 15TH ANNUAL TOWN HALL MEETING ON SECURITY AT CIVIC CENTRE, VICTORIA ISLAND, ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2021


PIX 1 L-R: Executive Secretary/CEO, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun; Board Chairman of LSSTF, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti; Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Assistant Inspector General of Police in-charge of Zone 2 Command, AIG Adeleke Adeyinka and Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, during the 15th Annual Town Hall meeting on Security, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. 


PIX 2 L-R: Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Board Chairman, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti and the Executive Secretary/CEO, LSSTF, Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun during the 15th Annual Town Hall meeting on Security, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. 


 

PIX 3 L-R: Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Executive Secretary/CEO, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun during the 15th Annual Town Hall meeting on Security, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. 


 

PIX 4: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, flanked by his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat (right), followed by Assistant Inspector General of Police in-charge of Zone 2 Command, AIG Adeleke Adeyinka and Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu; Board Chairman, Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti (left), followed by the Executive Secretary/CEO of LSSTF, Dr. Abdurrazaq Balogun and other heads of security agencies in the State, during the 15th Annual Town Hall meeting on Security, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, on Wednesday, December 22, 2021.

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