Fintiri keep mum as vandals destroys street lights install by Bindow’s administration in Adamawa

Residents of Jimeta, Yola town and Adamawa communities in Yola North Local Government, Adamawa State, have lamented living in darkness as the street lights that supplies power to roads has been vandalised.

The residents, while speaking to The Finder Newspaper stated that cables was stolen from the transformers on daily basis due to the total neglect the streetlights suffer under Fintiri’s administration, adding that efforts to get the government attention to the activities of the cable vandals had proved abortive.

The patron of all the Community Development Associations in Yola South, Jamiu Sulaiman, said the communities had been in perpetual darkness since the cables was stolen, adding that it was due to the “I don’t care” attitude of Gov. Fintiri about the lights that is responsible for the current lucrative business enjoyed by the vandals.

The 69-year-old Adamawa State indigene said, “About five to six weeks ago, we were told that the cable of our transformer and the street lights was stolen; but when we got to the transformer, we observed that an experienced person stole the cable. If Fintiri’s government would have given priority to the street lights like the previous administration, in the process of removing the cable, that person would have been electrocuted.

“we wonder why Fintiri look the other way and billions of tax payers’ money used for the installation of the street lights went into the drain, no one can point what the current administration is doing, they claimed education is their priority, no single primary school has been renovated, all tertiary institutions owned by the state government are in ruined, as I speak to you up till date, no institution in Adamawa state can tell you that the problem of funding has been taken care of by this administration

Traders around police roundabout in Jimeta also condemned the power outage, saying that the lack of power supply plaguing the streets of Yola had affected residents’ businesses.

“However, I want to also use this opportunity to appeal to Fintiri and his party the PDP to try as much as possible to assist us in safeguarding the electrical assets installed by the Bindow’s administration as we cannot fold our arms and watch vandals destroy what has been given the entire streets of Yola security been destroy by vandals. We noticed that in the last couple of months, vandalism has been on the increase.”