“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...

LAWMAKER PRESENTS AMBULANCES EMPOWERMENT MATERIALS TO ABOUT 500 IDPS. (PHOTOS).


Lawmaker Presents Ambulances, Empowerment Materials to About 500 IDPs 

The member representing Chibok, Damboa and Gwoza Federal Constituency in Borno state, Honourable Ahmed Jaha has presented empowerment materials to about five hundred Internally displaced persons and other vulnerable people of his constituency. 

At a ceremony in Government House Maiduguri, Governor Babagana Zulum commended the member for empowering his constituents who have been devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency. 

Governor Zulum promised to provide more developmental projects to the area and also complete existing ones. 

Some of the projects according to the Governor include completion of Chibok-Mbalala road, construct of new General hospital in Damboa, deploy modern equipment to enhance mechanise farming and collaborate with the Federal government to rehabilitate the Maiduguri-Damboa road. 

The member representing Chibok, Damboa and Gwoza Federal Constituency Honourable Ahmed Jaha said this is the fifteenth empowerment programme since his election in the last four years. 

According to him, the intervention is geared towards complementing the post insurgency recovery effort of the state government. 

The Lawmaker explained that four ambulances were donated by Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation NDIC at a total cost of fourty five million naira each, would be distributed to four hospitals in Gwoza, Damboa, Chibok and Ngoshe.

Correspondence Dauda Iliya reports that other items distributed by the Hon Jaha include thirteen utility buses, 360 refrigerators and 100 sewing machines.

More photos below. 


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